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Which is why it's particularly interesting to see some of the book covers that didn't quite make the cut.
Here's a link to the New York Times Sunday Book Review's May 13 photo list of bookjacket designs that didn't make it.
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The ones I've read on the NYT list are "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman (my blog post and a photo of the cover of the book that I purchased here) and Lorrie Moore's "A Gate at the Stairs." (blog and book cover here).
It's funny how you attach your feelings about a book to its cover. While I like both of the scrapped versions of the covers of Rachman's and Moore's novels, shown in the NYT link, they don't feel representative of what I read.
And, while we're on the topic, here's a previous post (Dec. 2010) of mine on winning bookcovers.
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