Paul Morel both loves and is repelled by his mother, a good woman who makes up for her poor marriage to a violent, uneducated man by lavishing all her attention on her sons. But as Paul grows up and takes lovers, the feelings between mother and son will produce only terrible conflict between what Paul wants, and what he truly needs.
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Book-cover designer Marian Bantjes answers a few questions on the design-process.
~ How did this book inspire your cover artwork?
Well, it's a book about love and sex and mothers, and, um, I call this the “vulva type”.
~ Did you approach the design like any other book, or did it feel that these ones were a little special?
They were special because of the concept of using text from the book and the colour palette of red, but in terms of the RED collaboration, I would say I approached it the same as any other book.
~ What else do you associate with the colour red?
Blood, viscera, passion, war, love, sex ... there's an involvement in the colour red, it's something you sink your teeth, arms, heart, mind into.
