The two English-language publishers for my forthcoming book, Hotel Florida, have now pretty much finalized their jacket designs; and I’m struck not only by the elegance of each design, but by the differences between them. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, in New York, have (with my encouragement, it must be said) gone the panoramic, movie-poster route: a gorgeous montage of some of the faces and places that feature in the book. Bloomsbury, in London, have opted for an elegiac and elegant approach, in which a single image – a Robert Capa photo – stands, metonymically (is that a word? if it isn’t, it should be), for Hotel Florida’s themes and characters.....


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