Title: The Farm
Author: Louis Bromfield
Cover artist: James Avati
Condition: 8/10
Estimated value: $15-20
- Hay rides have always sounded like hell to me, but this doesn't look so bad.
- This is probably the single hottest Avati cover of all time. Note that 99% of all Avati covers involve people standing motionless and looking sad.
- It really is exquisite as a piece of figurative art—those heads, arms, calves, feet!—and all the peripheral details are rendered with keen-eyed precision as well.
- Jeez, Omaha World-Herald. Dial it back a notch.
- I'm here for the hot rural action, not "Indian massacres." Come on, Bromfield!
- He looks like Mickey Spillane's yokel cousin.
Page 123~
And for days Johnny was haunted by a vision of Greataunt (sic) Jane clad in a pink union suit with a corset cover of passementerie.
When you don't have internet porn, you make do.
~RP
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3 comments:
Writer known for his love of soil. He's in great company with Wendall Berry.
Front Cover Art is sublime!
It's gorgeous art, but the more I look at it, the more I get distracted by the feeling that the horse pulling the wagon is off-center, and it bugs the heck out of me.
That is a wonderful painting. But then I'm a huge Avati fan.
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