The Zone
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Author:
Sergei Dovlatov
Year: 1985
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394535227
Comments:
For the first edition jacket of this satirical novelization subtitled “A Prison Camp Guard’s Story,” Fred once again found a way to put the typography to work. It’s “the big book look,” but the ominous and gigantic letter forms serve as a barrier against an arid world.