Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cover artist: Muni
Yours for: best offer
- I'm intrigued the modernist book design in the book hammock
- More gruesome lefthanditude
- This cover gets awesomer once you realize that it is a wrap-around...
- Free verse. Interesting. I am imagining this being read at a Poetry Slam. Now I'm imagining it being read by Garrison Keillor. Both versions have their charms / horrors.
- "Confirmed bachelor" — awesome! The main character is gay! That must be why there's that dash for shocking emphasis in the phrase "he fell desperately, unequivocally / in love — with a woman!" [gasp!]
- Mmmm, 9. My favorite number. I am the man in lower nine.
Page 123~
Hotchkiss had penetrated the steaming interior of the cave, and now his voice, punctuated by the occasional thud of horses' hoofs, came to me.
What are horses hoofs doing in the middle of an otherwise very hot sex scene?
~RP
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6 comments:
I'm imagining Christopher Walken reading the poem on the back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy5JwYOlgvY
Wonderful cover! I love covers where there appears to be a whole little world hidden inside the book. That must be one looooong train ride - from the small splash of colour on Mr Pyjama Man's chest, I presume he's dead. From the hideous rigidity of his arm, I assume he's been lying there for 12 hours and rigor mortis has set in. Where's the attendant for this carriage?
I have this book! Great cover!!
But, only someone with shame whims would name their wang Hotchkiss!
I love this! Love the way his (weird) hand is sticking out, love the way most of his body is hidden, love the wraparound cover!
Shame whims!
Actually, I wasn't getting "gay" from this copy. I figured our boy here is more of a fear-of-commitment George Clooney type.
"What are horses hoofs doing in the middle of an otherwise very hot sex scene?"
If you have to ask, Rex, you'll never understand....
...but seriously, folks: "confirmed bachelor" was accepted and definitive mid-century code for "gay," Alix. Of course, gay and fear of commitment are not mutually exclusive.
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