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The Clothing of Books

by Jhumpa Lahiri
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A deeply personal reflection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake that explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer.

How do you clothe a book? Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: November 15, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9780525432760
  • File size: 679 KB
  • Release date: November 15, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780525432760
  • File size: 710 KB
  • Release date: November 15, 2016

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subjects

Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Nonfiction

Languages

English

A deeply personal reflection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake that explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer.

How do you clothe a book? Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”
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Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Nonfiction