Sunday, July 7, 2013

Paperback 668: Fiona / Catherine Gaskin (Fontana 2958)

Paperback 668: Fontana 2958 (1st ptg, 1972)

Title: Fiona
Author: Catherine Gaskin
Cover artist: Uncredited [Renato Fratini]

Yours for: Not For Sale (gift to the collection from Laurie Gagne)

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Best things about this cover:
  • The drugs they gave her for her root canal were really, really good.
  • Are you there God, it's me, sexy drugged-out plantation lady.
  • If you can figure out what the hell is happening in the background with the people and the running and what not, you have better eyes and interpretive skills than I do.


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Best things about this back cover:
  • This novel should've been called "Dangerous Currents." That, or "Plantation Fantasies To Masturbate By."
  • It's pretty impressive how this description manages to make "emancipation" seem like a species of orgasm.
  • Woman's Journal—the journal read by just one woman.

Page 123~

"Before he was ill—before Maria and that rotten weed she gave him to smoke—that, and the rum—he was a clever manager."

Plantation romances are not really my cup of tea, but I am suddenly interested in Maria and her rotten weed.

~RP

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2 comments:

Laurie G. said...

"What is that noise? White people trying to sing slave spirituals?"

Unknown said...

Plantation fantasies? Is that the young Paula Deen on the cover?