Subject
Re: Cover Art on VN Paperbacks (fwd)
Date
Body
From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
I have the same copy of GLORY that Sylvia Weiser Wendel so accurately
described. It does have a cover of your basic Harlequin romance. The back
cover redeems it somewhat by a one of the better quotes on Nabokov from
ATLANTIC: "The last of Mr. Nabokov's early Russian novels to be put into
English, like the others, suggests that genius starts a jump ahead of
where the average artist finishes."
Fawcett covers definitely deserve a book of their own (with an
appropriate cover!). The one for Transparent Things (1972) features a very
exotic and very naked (except for the beads) long- and dark-haired female
in a blot of dirty brown and green colors which are reminiscent of the
colors of an unsuccessfully dyed-in-knots T-shirt of the type worn at the
time. It's absolutely ghastly!
Galya Diment
I have the same copy of GLORY that Sylvia Weiser Wendel so accurately
described. It does have a cover of your basic Harlequin romance. The back
cover redeems it somewhat by a one of the better quotes on Nabokov from
ATLANTIC: "The last of Mr. Nabokov's early Russian novels to be put into
English, like the others, suggests that genius starts a jump ahead of
where the average artist finishes."
Fawcett covers definitely deserve a book of their own (with an
appropriate cover!). The one for Transparent Things (1972) features a very
exotic and very naked (except for the beads) long- and dark-haired female
in a blot of dirty brown and green colors which are reminiscent of the
colors of an unsuccessfully dyed-in-knots T-shirt of the type worn at the
time. It's absolutely ghastly!
Galya Diment