My Son’s Story
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Author:
Nadine Gordimer
Year: 1990
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374217518
Comments:
The novel’s setting is Johannesburg during apartheid. Sometimes Fred felt that a type treatment could convey a book’s mood as well as an illustration, as in this first edition jacket. As always, he designed the spine with as much care as the cover’s face. The very next year, the novel’s author, Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Swedish Academy explicitly cited My Son’s Story in their press release, calling it ”ingenious and revealing and at the same time enthralling.“