whups...

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

m. powers writes:

> Incidentally, speaking of the physical book.. I've heard tell of an
> edition of _Vineland_ out there somewhere whose cover is something
> maybe best described as a "pop-art votive" scene, involving the benign
> (sic) grandfatherly visage of Ronald Reagan on a television sitting
> atop a classic jukebox, flanked by a pair of archetypal teenyboppers
> wearing some manner of welding gear... ? Anyone have more details?

Standard cover for the UK hardback and for the first UK paperback
printing. The `teenyboppers' are either Frenesi and Prairie or Frenesi
in the 60s and modern day - probably a deliberate indeterminacy. As
well as Rawnie, in a pose which looks somewhat like that Watts essay
`Late late late show' sculpture, there is a plastic dinosaur and an
unexplained fat guy (no offence to anyone with a large waistline) on
the back of the jacket with a garish shirt and a mustache. Can't be
Zee Dubbyah, can it? Anyone have any better ideas?


Andrew Dinn
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