The Waterline
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Year: 1989
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385265058
Comments:
A seven-year-old boy is the only witness to the drowning of a two-year-old neighbor. He assumes guilt, even though it was an accident. Fred’s first edition jacket subtly depicts the scene without actually doing so. Note the still subtler echoes of the type at both top and bottom.