Some of you may remember that back in August I posted about how I had found two recent
lookalike covers that matched the cover to
Gone to Soldiers by
Marge Piercy (which was first published in 1988). In that post, I also included two other books that feature similar sepia-toned images of a couple:
The Wreckage by
Michael Crummey and
The Geography of Love: A Memoir by
Glenda Burgess. Well, not only have I found another book that uses the same cover as the Marge Piercy book, but this book,
Consequences by
Penelope Lively, has also been published with the same cover as
The Wreckage! How weird is that?
According to Amazon, Viking published the top edition of the Lively book in 2007, nearly 20 years after Fawcett put out
Gone to Soldiers.
The Wreckage, on the other hand, was published by Anchor Canada in 2006 while the bottom edition of
Consequences was published by Lester & Orpen Dennys (another Canadian publisher) in 2008.
Definitely weird! And you had them on the same post. You must be a mind reader, lol.
ReplyDeleteSo someone didn't really do their homework... interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat is weird, but the different use of colors does give the images a different feel.
ReplyDeleteI actually like the blue with red one!! Not the sepia..which I usually am drawn to!
ReplyDeleteI'd think that if they were going to publish the Lively book "Consequences" with a different cover, it would be a cover that hasn't been used on another book, at least a popular book published in the 20th century! But I like the blue color with read accents!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting post!
~ Amy
It's so interesting how the cover designers were drawn to the same photos.
ReplyDeleteI picture the publishers having an old file folder that they go through and choose which cover they haven't used in a while! I like the Penelope Lively cover best I think, maybe because I can see more activity in the background.
ReplyDeleteFunny! This time I like the (sepia) Penelope Lively cover best! Hmm...maybe at some point you can make a post of exceptionally unique and intriguing covers! (Although then you'd have to eat your hat if someone re-used an image!)
ReplyDeleteThat's funny... maybe they thought 20 years was enough for people to notice? Are there so few image sources for book covers? I really wonder why we see the same images so many times...
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