The Cheese Monkeys - Brossura

'Art school in the '50s - for the first and probably definitive time. This wise, funny and ragingly shrewd first novel explodes all the myths of academia and brilliantly builds its own. The world's greatest book-jacket designer finds a second spellbinding artistic voice' JAMES ELLROY
'Not only has Chip Kidd altered the face of publishing with his revolutionary book jackets, he has also written a really good debut novel, and the big surprise is that the edgy, post-modern graphic designer...is a pleasing, elegant traditionalist between covers. The Cheese Monkeys...has suspense, likeable and vivid characters, a romantic, pitch-perfect recreation of late 50s behaviour and slang, and effortlessly sustained comic charm. I can't remember the last timeI read what is ostensibly a "college" novel that actually taught me something' BRET EASTON ELLIS
'Kidd's gifts as a designer are also his gifts as a writer: wit, exquisite taste, high energy, and a mad love for the things of this world. A wild ride through a unique consciousness' GEORGE SAUNDERS
'One of the most vivid, expert, hilarious, and strangely gripping accounts of what it means to learn how to see. If The Cheese Monkeys weren't so intelligent, rollicking and downright entertaining, it would be chastening indeed to find that someone as visually gifted as Mr Kidd also turned out to have considerable verbal plumage, as well' DAVID RAKOFF

Chip Kidd, the associate art director of jackets and special projects at Knopf Publishing, has long been recognised as a leading pioneer in book-cover art. He is the recipient of numerous graphic design honours and awards. This is his first novel.