Salinger's covers
Jessica Lynn Becker (beckerj@uwec.edu)
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:01:56 -0600
I had an interesting encounter while I was working the front desk last
night....
I had my copy of F&Z on the counter and this girl walks up to me shrieking
"I read that book, isn't it great?" So I told her I wasn't finished yet,
and then she asked if she could look at it. She read the title and flipped
out. She had read Catcher, not F&Z...she apologized for her mistake, but
then realized that both were by the same author and started ranting about
how all of Salinger's paperbacks (the new ones, white with a rainbow banner
in the upper left corner) look the same, why couldn't he hire somebody to
do cover art? I tried to explain that Salinger has a dislike for elaborate
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.
jessica :)