Lemony Snicket : The Unauthorized Autobiography (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Snicket, Lemony

ISBN 10: 0060007192 / ISBN 13: 9780060007195

Published by HarperCollins Children's Books, New York NY, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lemony Snicket : The Unauthorized Autobiography (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books, New York NY
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060007192
• ISBN 13: 9780060007195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Stated; "1" in Number Line
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Not Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's

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Synopsis

Through a series of maps, diagrams, writings, photographs, and a comprehensive index, the mystery of author Lemony Snicket is unveiled to middle readers.

Review

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator and so on.)? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket's indelible mark, from the book jacket to the copyright page text to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographs appearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets the stage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded information passed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pages from a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy", blueprints of ships, minutes from secret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is, do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get a straight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter, Amazon.com