Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Paperback 70: Our Flesh Was Cheap / Eve Linkletter (Fabian Z-128)

Paperback 70: Fabian Z-128 (PBO, 1959)

Title: Our Flesh Was Cheap
Author: Eve Linkletter
Cover artist: Uncredited


Best things about this cover:

  • "Are you depressed? Is your apartment a dank, run-down hovel? Is your flesh, well, cheap? Then why not join the movement that's sweeping the nation - Knit Your Way to Happiness!"
  • This cover is decidedly unsexy. Coverless bed, cracked walls, naked lightbulb, portrait of Dear Old Grandma (or Man With Enormous Beard). And yet some kind of Cézanne-esque still life appears to have broken out on the book's western border...
  • "Our Flesh was Cheap" - starring Illeana Douglas!


Best things about this back cover:

It's the same as the last back cover - clearly the country was in the grip of Eve-mania.

RP

2 comments:

Michael5000 said...

Wow, we're up to 70 already. What a long, great trip it is.

Do you have #100 picked out yet?

Anonymous said...

BTW, no one knits like that. She's totally holding the needles backwards.