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Jane Quilter, Sheffield I am not sure about the best book of the year – but Counterpart by Rorie Smith (Tan Tan Books) could certainly qualify as the oddest book of the year.
I bought my own copy, and as I busied myself writing my second novel, Lifers, through that spring and summer, Tan's book became a sort of bible for everything I was trying to achieve.
The images in Tan's book have to be seen to be believed - a timeless epic tale in pictures for humans of any age.
I keep a mirror to help me – I furrow my brow, I raise my eyebrows…" The result is a world more realist – or at least markedly less surrealist – than that of, say, the Australian, Shaun Tan, whose book The Arrival deals with migration in a similar tonality but different atmosphere, and whose film animation The Lost Thing won an Oscar last year.
The antiquarian volume was not for sale, though there was a shameless knockoff of Olympia Le-Tan's book clutch ($325).
Alas, it wasn't Dorothea Tanning, whose book of paintings was artfully strewn on the floor between the Champagne empties and the Dolce heels.
THESSALY LA FORCE: The fashionable set has taken a liking to Olympia Le-Tan's books, which are great for wearing, though not so perfect for reading.
Shaun Tan's latest book could also end up tucked away with the picture books in bookstores.
Mr. Tan's first book, "Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)," is out this month, with a foreword by his friend and S.I.Y. collaborator Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence".
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