Title: Pal Joey
Author: John O'Hara
Cover artist: Barye Phillips
Best things about this cover:
- Ring-a-ding-ding, this cover rules in every way.
- Not the greatest likeness of Frank, but cool nonetheless.
- Love the cover design - the font, the colors - and love the cocky pose Frank is striking.
- Even the inside of his trench coat looks cool.
- I wanna be a "two-bit nightclub heel"! That's a great phrase. Considering that one of my students today sent out a message to the entire class (240 students) saying that I am ugly and look like a monkey ... I would love to be called a "two-bit heel" right about now.
Best things about this back cover:
- More great design. Love the colors, and the circles diminishing into the background. The chick in fishnets with her hips thrust forward isn't bad either.
- World's tiniest movie stills.
RP
3 comments:
All right, then...
You're a heel, Rex.
A glittering, two bit heel.
There, I said it.
The John O'Hara? "The Horse Knows the Way," and all those? Why have I never read this? Have you been hiding this from me? Yes, because you don't want anyone to actually Read your books. Do we have a beatup second copy downstairs?
Hey, here's "make" used again for having sex (remembering "Let's Make Mary").
--Tony
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