Title: Torch for a Dark Journey
Author: Lionel Shapiro
Cover artist: uncredited
Yours for: $10
Best things about this cover:
- "Oh Steve, it's that horrible man again, and he's blocking our path over the bridge ... now I'll never make it back to the Nursing School dormitories before curfew!"
- I swear that I am picking these books one after the other off the shelves where they are (very randomly) placed, so I have no idea how I managed to get three paperbacks in a row featuring this cover art paradigm (man shielding woman in foreground-left from suspicious smoking man in background-right - see Paperbacks 83 and 84)
- Again, I assert that it is physically impossible for either of them actually to see the smoking man above and behind them.
- I love how our two lovebirds both have Action Hands - he's unscrewing an imaginary mayonnaise jar while she is signaling to the pitcher to throw the sinker.
- I hate Bantam for their repeated failure to credit cover artists. I need to know Who Painted That Tie?
- With the exception of some minor scuffing on the front, this book is in Perfect (unread) condition.
Best things about this back cover:
- Well, as you can see, not much. It's all words. I have to ask, however: What kind of editor at the NYT let all that horrible passive voice construction into the review? "... can be savored ... is achieved ... can only be described ..." Ugh, I spend the better part of my paper-grading time trying to beat this crap out of students.
Now here it is, your PAGE 123:
"Why do you tell me this, Moussia?"
"Why?" She looked up at him. Her lovely face was soft and helpless, and her eyes were deep and brown and so luminous that he felt he could see into the depths of her mind.
"Why, Philip? Because we are alone, my father and I, and I am a woman, and we have only one friend. What else can I say, Philip?"
"You shouldn't have told me."
RP
