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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Alfred A. Knopf (New York, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
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When many book jacket designs seem directed by marketing or author egos, and you have a chance to design a jacket for a book that is a deceptively simple novel in verse written by a prize-winning author—with quotes from not only Michael Ondaatje but Susan Sontag —it means you can use very small type.