The Learners by Chip Kidd
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Reviewed by L.D.Y.
Hardcover, 260 pages, 2008
Rating: 10/10
Reason for Reading: I had my eye on Kidd’s debut novel since it first came out but it was a case of ‘too many books, too little time,’ so I was glad when this second novel fell into my hands.
Synopsis: When Happy finishes college in 1961, he decides he has to get a job at the same advertising agency where his favourite professor started his career in graphic design. He just didn’t realize he’d be working with such an odd (borderline crazy) crowd, or that he’d run into an outrageous old friend, or that he’d design a newspaper ad recruiting test subjects for an experiment at Yale - all of which will shake up his views on life, himself, and all of humanity..
