Today, from my publisher’s Facebook page:
Today. I wrote:
Yes, indeed. As I remember it, the cover’s facelessness was the more sinister for its expressing the ‘moral vacuum’ of the principal characters and even the indeterminateness of gender of at least two of them; that is, one is described by his lawyer father as having ‘no inheritable blood’ (!) and another described as having a ‘naïve unusedness’ of ‘no particular gender’, so your design does wonders in capturing those unknowable subtleties of appearance, for which – at that well remembered time – I was extremely grateful. Today, I wish you all at Salt another successful epoch of distinguished ground-breaking publishing and a wonderful new stable of literary discoveries for your next quarter century.
See:
https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2011/09/published-this-autumn-listen-close-to.html
