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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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Del Banco’s pronouncement that Satan is dead is one I imagine appearing in newspaper headlines and on posters tacked to lampposts and the doors of churches, done hastily to break the story. The cover, like the book, attempts to defy the threat of evil by simplifying it, with a sketch, so as not to give form—and ultimately life—to the greatest of our fears.