Title: Uncle Tom's Children
Author: Richard Wright
Cover artist: jonas
Yours for: $20
Best things about this cover:
- Kind of an abrupt shift from all the sexed-up lesbian stuff I've been trafficking in lately.
- Simple, gruesome, effective cover from "jonas," one of the most important early pb cover artists.
- Really digging the title font. Also, that dude's pocket square.
Best things about this back cover:
- Back cover from back when paperbacks still modeled their back covers after those on the insides of hardcover dust jackets. Very straitlaced and informative and decidedly non-sensational.
- The first recipient of the Spingarn medal was Ernest Everett Just (1915). Trivia!
Page 123~
There was silence. Then Hadley laughed, noiselessly.
Laughed noiselessly? You might want to check that he's not choking.
~RP
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3 comments:
If he laughed noiselessly, would there still be silence?
In other words, the silence was not broken.
Surely there is a little more to be said about that back cover, which starts out by talking about his height and his kind, intelligent face. I don't think they would have written about Hemingway that way. And then there is the great line, "...highest award for achievement in the field of Negro interests." Wright was a great writer and deserves a little better than this!
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