Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006

By Roz Chast

Book Overview

A rich collection of three decades of Roz Chast's most beloved cartoons.

"Where would we be without Roz Chast? Chast's magnificent career-spanning collection highlights her position as master of the deep interior, of the obsessions, the baseless fears and the weird proverbs to which we cling in our desperation not to leave the house."- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

This wonderfully comprehensive collection spanning nearly three decades and arranged chronologically-and drawn from the pages of magazines including Scientific American and Redbook as well as The New Yorker-brings together, for the first time, the very best of Roz Chast, whom O Magazine called "the wryest pen since Dorothy Parker's."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596915404
• ISBN13: 9781596915404
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 3.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.9" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

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After Halloween, I'll trade you 1. three Snicker bars 2. all my hard candy 3. everything in my storage unit, and 4. my mother for a copy of the Chast book.

Giggles Galore!

At last for fans of R. Chast. This book is so funny that you cannot put it down and will annoy everyone in the house by laughing out loud every 30 seconds to the exclusion of every other activity for the rest of the day.

This is fine dining

The book weighs a ton and it is worth lifting, carrying around, and reading as much as possible. It is better than red popsicles and almost as good as dark chocolate covered carmels (the good ones). It is like someone excised all of the best parts of "The New Yorker" and installed them into one book. If you are a fan of Roz Chast, tell a good friend to buy it for you for your birthday... or if you have no friends buy it for your own birhtday.

A winner from Chast!

Roz Chast is a brilliant cartoonist, as all readers of the New Yorker know. But this large compilation--so big it will hurt your wrists--demonstrates her range and skills conclusively. A big, big helping of Chast's work in a long-lasting form; now you can take down all those clippings from the refrigerator door.

Roz Chast, All American Woman

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this volume of cartoons. Chaste targets so many of the foibles of family and society with humor and a touch of venom. Perhaps the same feeling that a fly has, caught in the spider web. Alas, too late!!