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Also by Maira Kalman:

My Favorite Things, November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Why We Broke Up, January 2012
Hardcover
Food Rules, November 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
And The Pursuit Of Happiness, October 2010
Hardcover
The Principles of Uncertainty, October 2007
Hardcover
The Elements of Style Illustrated, October 2005
Hardcover (reprint)
Fireboat, August 2005
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THE PRINCIPLES OF UNCERTAINTY
By: Maira Kalman

Penguin Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 18, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 159420134X
EAN: 9781594201349
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text.

The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman. Her brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images-which initially appear random-ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue. Kalman contends with some existential questions-What is identity? What is happiness? Why do we fight wars? And then, of course, death, love, and candy (not necessarily in that order).

The tremendous success of Kalman's 2005 illustrated edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style established her as an original, inspirational voice, and the quirky, hilarious, heartbreaking style of The Principles of Uncertainty reveals Maira Kalman for what she truly is: a national treasure.

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Studio 360 - December 15, 2007