The Pajama’s Media Review
Manolo says, the Manolo’s friend Roger L. Simon, CEO of the Pajamas Media has reviewed the Manolo’s new work, The Consolation of the Shoes.
The Manolo, on his blog, could teach us style and decorum, observe our culture, sell shoes and be funny all at the same time. It was a tap dance he continued to carry off, to my amazement, from week to week. I wondered if he could expand this into longer forms.
Now I know. The Consolation of The Shoes is an attempt to explain The Manolo without explaining him, if you know what I mean, and it succeeds brilliantly. Yet somehow, beneath all the obfuscations and stratagems, truth emerges. And perhaps that is the point. We learn much of the character and development of The Manolo, about his allegiance to Lady Fashion, and the answer to one of the greatest of all imponderables – equal to, if not exceeding, the conundrum of one hand clapping … “What, then, oh mortal men, do you seek happiness outside that which lies within your shoes?”
Please go read the whole review, and then perhaps go buy the copy of The Consolation of the Shoes. You will not regret either decision.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Dearest Manolo…I want a signed copy!
May 29th, 2007 at 10:03 am
I dreamt last night that I came across a copy in a bookstore, and when I picked it up it was an inch and a half thick!