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The Customer is Always Wrong
Mimi Pond
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Description for The Customer is Always Wrong
Hardback. The Customer is Always Wrong is the continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Num Pages: 448 pages, Colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 159. .
The Customer is Always Wrong is the continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a scuzzy, low-rent warzone and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the sleaze-ball characters that sur- round her into her workaday waitressing life. Outrageous and loving tributes and takedowns of her co-workers and satellites of the Imperial Cafe create a snapshot of a time in Mimi s life where she encounters who she is, and who she is not. Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her previous memoir Over Easy, Pond s storytelling gifts have never been stronger than in this epic, comedic novel. She drops readers right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for the addicts and alcoholics surrounding her while her career as a cartoonist starts to take off.
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770462823
SKU
V9781770462823
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-6
About Mimi Pond
Mimi pond started her career as a cartoonist at the National Lampoon in the late 70s. In the years following, she wrote and illustrated five humour books and contributed regularly to dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. In 2014, she published the first part of her coming of age memoir, Over Easy. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband the painter Wayne White. She is now close friends with Monica Lewinsky.
Reviews for The Customer is Always Wrong
Sharp and ambitious... If Pond's last book was a sitcom, The Customer is Always Wrong would be an HBO drama with a Sunday night time slot.
Jezebel The sobering wake-up call to naive nostalgia... [The Customer Is Always Wrong offers] a look at the end of a wild ride, punctuated by deeply profound moments in a time that could swallow you whole.
San Francisco Chronicle A book filled with ghosts... An Oakland that doesn't exist anymore, a culture that doesn't exist anymore, and people that don't exist anymore, in more ways than one.
Hollywood Reporter A charming, loosely autobiographical story of Pond's early years.
National Post Best of 2017 Set in late 1970s Oakland, this comedic graphic novel from Over Easy author Pond follows a waitress named Madge whose career as a comic artist finally starts to take off.
Entertainment Weekly Mimi Pond is a treasure, one we ignore at our own risk... Her latest book
a thick, semi-autobiographical bildungsroman called The Customer Is Always Wrong
might be her greatest work to date. It's a lengthy and detailed portrait of a young woman working at a restaurant in late-'70s Oakland and the cast of characters around her
some of them shady, some of them lovable, and all of them compelling. Pond's hand is confident and her figure work hops balletically across the page; her facial acting is simple, but searing.
Vulture
Jezebel The sobering wake-up call to naive nostalgia... [The Customer Is Always Wrong offers] a look at the end of a wild ride, punctuated by deeply profound moments in a time that could swallow you whole.
San Francisco Chronicle A book filled with ghosts... An Oakland that doesn't exist anymore, a culture that doesn't exist anymore, and people that don't exist anymore, in more ways than one.
Hollywood Reporter A charming, loosely autobiographical story of Pond's early years.
National Post Best of 2017 Set in late 1970s Oakland, this comedic graphic novel from Over Easy author Pond follows a waitress named Madge whose career as a comic artist finally starts to take off.
Entertainment Weekly Mimi Pond is a treasure, one we ignore at our own risk... Her latest book
a thick, semi-autobiographical bildungsroman called The Customer Is Always Wrong
might be her greatest work to date. It's a lengthy and detailed portrait of a young woman working at a restaurant in late-'70s Oakland and the cast of characters around her
some of them shady, some of them lovable, and all of them compelling. Pond's hand is confident and her figure work hops balletically across the page; her facial acting is simple, but searing.
Vulture