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| The original design that I believe inspired the cover |
The US edition (Pantheon) has a proposed cover that's slightly less daring, though it's not finalised, by Peter Mendelsund...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Sex in the Middle East
Sex and the Citadel is an upcoming (January 2013) non-fiction account of the changing sexual lives of men and women in the Arab countries. Given the usual Middle Eastern book cover cliches, you might expect some variation on pictures of headscarves and perhaps a phallic rifle or two. Fortunately, publisher Chatto & Windus have gone in a very different direction, taking a traditional Arabic design and slightly tweaking it to give it a more labial feel...
The US edition (Pantheon) has a proposed cover that's slightly less daring, though it's not finalised, by Peter Mendelsund...
The US edition (Pantheon) has a proposed cover that's slightly less daring, though it's not finalised, by Peter Mendelsund...
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bottom one is mendelsund.
Thanks--I'll add that.
I can't help it, but the second one has to be a bad joke - I mean a phallic tower construct as cover picture for a book on sex, seriously?
That's so 70's.
I used to play bass for Labial Feel.
Ha ha ha! Ladies and gentlemen, Rex will be here (http://salmongutter.blogspot.com/) all week.
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