In July I posted
these four tremendous new covers for B. S. Johnson reprints. A helpful commenter told me they were the work of
La Boca. by chance, I was just admiring their
Louise-Brooks-meets-puffy-paint-in-a-shredder cover for the Booker-nominated
The Teleportation Accident. So it seems a good time to do a round up of their various cover art jobs.
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Those Nicholas Blake (pen-name of
Cecil Day-Lewis) covers make me want to try his Nigel Strangeways amateur detective books again, even though past experience suggests that his non-Strangeways crime novels are far superior (see especially the sadly neglected
The Private Wound, out of print now for 25 years.)
4 comments:
That Gary Shteyngart cover is absolutely stellar. However, Shteyngart's last name is decidedly not.
Ha! I've actually now bought 2 books by him, and have yet to read either. This is a symptom of something.
I initially read 'symptom' as 'synonym' in that last comment. Make of that what you will.
I'm not so sure I like those new BSJ covers. They don't seem to match the bleak/desparing content of the books so much. (I am happy those books are being reissued, however).
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