Books on Monday: This Is the Life
Since writing about Joseph O’Neill’s first novel, I’ve had a chance to discuss it with the author (this is the life!), and nothing that he told me in our brief exchange prompted me to alter my remarks.
Mr O’Neill did agree with me that the dust jacket, designed by Chip Kidd way back when, when only designers knew who Chip Kidd was, and the author photograph by Nigel Parry, ditto (mutatis mutandis), is probably rather valuable.