Re: Salinger's covers
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sun, 01 Feb 1998 12:07:01 -0700 (MST)
For me it's the red color in that first paperback edition and no, I can't
explain--it's just a perfect red modeled I think on Holden's heart! will
On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Tim O'Connor wrote:
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> > covers and that the story itself is the most important part, don't judge a
> > book by it's cover and all...
> >
> > She just scoffed. Some people just don't get it.
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> I "get" it, but for those of us who have seen the movie "Repo Man," in
> which all consumer products are labelled generically (e.g., "Beer," "Food,"
> and so on) there's an eerie resemblance between those generic packages and
> the new white-cover/rainbow issues.
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> Regardless of how impure it is to feel this way 8-), I just love the
> original paperback of Catcher, with the picture of Holden in Times Square
> done by Jim Avanti, with all that text on the cover ("This unusual book may
> shock you, will make you laugh, and may break your heart -- but you will
> never forget it.") Hype aside, that little sentence is quite prophetic.
>
> (Ah, and there's a bonus for me, too: in pulling out this copy, to quote
> from the jacket properly, I discovered that of the two old Signet
> printings, one of them is the 1953 first printing!)
>
> --tim
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