Title: When You Think of Me
Author: Erskine Caldwell
Cover artist: [Signature blurred / Uncredited] — interior illustr. by Louis Macouillard
Yours for: $20
Best things about this cover:
- I know Caldwell girls are typically very "earthy," but I don't normally think of them as literally growing out of the earth.
- I love the guy in the background. He's like "That ... looks like ... what the hell?"
- The hyphen on "Ameri-ca's" hurts. A lot.
Best things about this back cover:
- "Living, loving, laughing ... suffering!" Ouch. It's really, really hard to land that Quadruple Alliteration in competition.
- I'm curious about the engineering on this "gun to distribute bread among starving peasants."
- Whoever typeset "bum's—eye" doesn't know his en dash from his rear end (-ash).
Page 123~
"They'd never understand what you went through at a time like that. All you knew was that your pal, who had gone through hell with you, was dead. That puts a queer feeling into any man."
One of the earliest documented discussions of post-traumatic queer disorder.
~RP
1 comment:
I've been to exactly one baseball game at a stadium in my life. They had a pneumatic cannon from which they shot t-shirts into the stands, and I always wondered where they got the idea for such an absurd thing. Thanks to you and Mr. Caldwell, I now know they adapted the bread-distributing gun for more prosaic purposes.
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