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Just yesterday I got my hands on Denis Johnson's (Tree of Smoke, etc) newest novel, Nobody Move: it's a brisk, engaging and uneasily funny thriller in the style of Elmore Leonard or Richard Stark. (And sometime I'm going to have to talk about Johnson's Fiskadero as an end-of-the-world book.)
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What concerns us here is the cover design, by Susan Mitchell, and the illustrated boards by Philip Earl Pascuzzo. The dustjacket, printed in lovely metallic inks, is full of die-cut bullet holes, which give you a glimpse of Pascuzzo's pictures of the two main characters underneath. (Click for nice big versions.) The book is published by FSG, who also produced that beautiful slipcased triple-decker version of 2666.
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Pascuzzo has a lot of other lovely cover work on display at his site. Here are a select few to give you a taste. (Again, click for nice big versions.)
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2 comments:
All beautiful covers. Love how this latest one, Nobody Move, looks on the shelves. Susan Mitchel is my God(dess).
Nice interview with Philip on FaceOut Books: http://faceoutbooks.com/#13862
I hadn't seen that interview: thanks for the link.
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