Thursday, October 22, 2009
Speaking From Beyond The Grave
A mountain load of books came in to [Pages] on Tuesday. Towards the final hour, second in command [Veronica Oxford] pulled out a book, she said, "You like this author, right?" I looked and recognized it was a Vonnegut book. His books all have a new style to their cover designs. When I was introduced to him, his books all had covers with giant Vs which alternated in colour depending on the novel, and a small square in the top with an image pertaining to the story. The new design has his crude illustrations, and as well, alternate in colour. So, mind-numbing details aside, what I am saying is that I thought it was just one of his older books with a new cover. But then I looked at the title, and also saw that it was a hardcover and realized that it was all new. It's titled Look At The Birdie. It's a collection of unpublished short stories. Needless to say, I'll have to pick this up soon enough. I wonder if bits of the last novel he may or may not have been working on will be in it. I'll find out soon enough.
See everyone in hell! (Except for Kurt Vonnegut who is up in heaven now.)
