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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
R.O. Blechman, Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
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The Book of Jonah began as a project commissioned by Harper & Row as a children’s book, but it soon became clear to the publisher and to me that the material was more adult oriented. I lost interest in the project and abandoned it until several years later, when the Gulf War broke out. My strong feelings about that conflict made me take up the project again when I projected myself as the protagonist, Jonah, and our government and President Bush as an Old Testament Jehovah.