Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Road

As some of you may know, I'm an avid reader. Sometimes as an exercise (and because doing book covers would be the dream job), I put together a book cover for a book that I really enjoyed. I read Cormac McCarthy's _The Road_ about a year ago, and was struck by McCarthy's barren, ash-colored landscape. I couldn't picture any images from this book in color—only charcoal or graphite—the simplest, barest tools for this story set in the aftermath of the apocalypse.


2 comments:

Cara said...

Yes -- I just read that when I was in Vietnam! I want to see the movie of it now. Plus it stars your favorite guy...

Jen said...

Gorgeous book jacket!