The New Sins / Los Nuevos Pecados (English and Spanish Edition)

by David Byrne

Hardcover, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

PN6231.R4

Genres

Nonfiction

Publication

McSweeneys Books (2001), Edition: First Edition, 128 pages

Description

David Byrne has written a book that updates and alters the Bible's cardinal sins for a more contemporary audience. Byrne wanted the book to be the size and shape of a portable Bible, and thus The New Sins resembles the sort of book a strange person in a robe would try to give you in an airport. Bizarre and profound, the book includes 80 color photographs taken by the author.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Osbaldistone

Well, Byrne seems to have some ideas here about things we take for granted today that perhaps we should reconsider. But the combination of tone (which makes it difficult to tell if/when he's serious) and the lack of any support for the opinions expressed make it shallow and frustrating. A quick

read; a unique book; maybe it's art. But not much more

Os.

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