Sunday Salon: In Anticipation …
April 6, 2008 by lizzysiddal
It may be spring but someone forgot to notify the weather fronts. I woke up this morning to snow and unlike Gem in To Kill a Mockingbird, I am not at all excited - I have too much driving to do today.
Fortunately I am not to be dissuaded from my anticipatory mood for Amazon have dispatched my latest order - a box which will contain a copy of Patrick McGrath’s new novel Trauma. I couldn’t wait until the UK release date - July, for goodness sakes! Why do publishers do this?
There are other reasons also for my purchase of a US edition. The US dustjacket is far superior, a candidate for Lizzy’s Best Cover of The Year and a trauma in itself - palpitations inevitably induced by a glimpse of that defaced literary tome. Heaven knows what the contents are going to do!
I’ve been McGrathing during March - stopping over in the New York City of his Ghost Town. (Full review to follow.) TheAsylum has an interview with the man himself. It’s all adding up to unbearable tension in this household ….
Mister Postman, please hurry!
The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth 
Cleave - Anthology of Scottish Women's Writing
The Ice Princess - Camilla Lackberg 
The point about the cover is well made. I saw the UK cover for the prequel to ‘Anne of Green Gables’ yesterday and it looked like sub Jacquie Wilson where as the US version pitches it in a much more realistic way. We had five inches of snow in Birmingham this morning, but most of it has gone now. I’m just hoping there is time for everywhere to dry up before tonight. If it freezes as it is at the moment tomorrow morning will not be funny.
O the subject of covers, check the differences between the UK and US one for John Crowley’s Little Big:
US Cover |
UK Cover
Which would you choose?
In this instance, the wonderful phantasmagorica that is the UK cover!
I hope you are kidding.
I’m not. I’m a sucker for anything purple!
I’d choose the US cover. I’m a sucker for anything sepia.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding was that Trauma was going to be published here in the UK on Tuesday (April
… or are you referring to the paperback version?
And, from what I can see, both the UK and US versions have the same cover…
Looks like a good book to add to my ever growing list!
Kimbofo
For info: See Trauma UK Cover at
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/paradorlounge/9780747594086.jpg
To be published in the UK by Bloomsbury July 7 2008
Thanks Lizzy. I like the US cover better!
Oooh, yes. Nice cover!
I’m anxious to see what you think of that one.