Re: neophyte
Andy Wishart (wishy@nettaxi.com)
Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:15:53 +0000 (GMT)
On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 04:00:15 -0500 (EST), mepierce@sfasu.edu wrote:
Hello,
>Question: Does anyone know what prompted Little, Brown and Company to
>dare to change the cover of Catcher? Few books are known by their
>covers--Catcher is one of those books.
Here in the UK, the Penguin paperback editions of Salinger seem to me
to have cover make-overs reasonably regularly. Since I generally feel
like re-buying them when I notice, I've got a bit of a suspicion about
why they do it too. . .
>The book is so much about opposing change. Remember how much Holden
>treasured those statues at the museum frozen in time? Some things
>should remain the same. How ironic that LBH would so dramatically
>tamper with the famous "face" of this novel.
Someone mentioned recently (if I'm recalling correctly) that there
were no photographs on Salinger covers and I meant to mention that my
pb copy of Nine Stories (titled, For Esme - with Love and Squalor for
the UK market) has a full colour photo of three kids on a staircase,
fists out, squaring up to the camera in mock-defiant pose - some
eerie, prescient echo of Salinger's own future attitude to
photographers.
Inside, a photo - unscreened - of Jerome himself, in younger, on the
jacket, you say? I don't see why not, days
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Cheers,
Andy