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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
Poulin + Morris (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996

Description

The design of the book jacket represents the essential dualities found in the novel—good and evil, brotherhood and betrayal, life and death. The image is used in positive and negative to reinforce the fact that there are always two ways to see something, always another side to a story.

Credits
Art director: L. Richard Poulin
Jacket designer: L. Richard Poulin
Photographer: Susan Alinsangan/Graphistock
Author: Robert McCrum
Typefaces: Bauer Bodoni, Rotis Sans
Printer: Haddon Printing
Paper: Squire Antique
Publisher/client: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.