The Clothing of Books - by Jhumpa Lahiri (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A Vintage Books original, November 2016"--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>How do you clothe a book? <br> In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, "the covers become a part of me."<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: <i>Interpreter of Maladies</i>, <i>The Namesake</i>, <i>Unaccustomed Earth</i>, and <i>The Lowland</i>; and a work of nonfiction, <i>In Other Words</i>. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for <i>In altre parole</i>.
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