Sep 3, 2015

FIRST LOVE LAST RITES - Ian McEwan

The influential American designer, Herb Lubalin was the inspiration behind this cover. His style of expressive typography was at its height in the mid 1970’s when First Love, Last Rites was first published. The font used is Avant Garde, which Lubalin designed. The typographic device of repeating and overprinting the letter O suggests the themes of love and murder, sex and loneliness, adolescence and incest which run throughout the book.

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