The Clothing of Books
Narrator: Jhumpa Lahiri
Imprint: Books on Tape
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
Release Date: November 15, 2016
0 Hours and 59 Minutes
List Price: $22.80
ISBN: 9781524774585
Categories:
Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs, Literary Criticism - Books & Reading, Biography & Autobiography - Women
How do you clothe a book?
In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. 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.”
In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. 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.”