 |
| "Fast-paced 1958 thriller: a jilted train driver hijacks his New York subway train to exact revenge upon his love rival, only to threaten the life of his ex-lover. The last 30 pages are missing. Don’t know if she survives." |
Last year, Christophe Gowans, a British graphic designer who has worked as art director at Blitz, Hybrid, Esquire, Modern Painters, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and Stella, created The Record Books, a series of faux volumes based upon great, best-selling record albums. Booktryst is pleased to present a sampler. The blurbs are his own.
 |
| "Thorough and clear children’s reference book concerning all things equine. Sadly, many of the illustrations within have been disfigured with juvenile amendments and additions, in biro." |
 |
| "Gruesome schlock from the prolific Jackson. In this relentless stalkerfest, private eye Dwight Blackman takes on the ‘Shamone’ Killer for the 3rd time. Will the psycho slip through the dick’s fingers yet again? Yes." |
 |
| "When a form of acid rain, caused by a comet plowing into Uranus, appears to stunt the growth of every living thing on Earth, mankind’s very existence is on a knife edge. When a group of pygmies realize that the peach is the only plant unaffected, they found a new society, with the peach stone as its currency." |
 |
| "Charismatic Harvard whizkid Hendrix’s self-help bible. A spin-off from his phenomenally successful TV reality show, ’The Experience.’" |
 |
| "A rags to glory autobiography by Bruce Reginald Grayson Springsteen. The story of his rise from squalor to victory in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics is… well, it’s a pretty dull book." |
 |
| "War comic. Part of a very long series, an epic really, recounting the journey of three boys from early conscription to their various fates. Heroic, tragic, moving. This one is covered in puerile sexual additions in blue biro, though." |
All images courtesy of Christopher Gowans, with our thanks.
Images are available as prints and postcards here.
__________
__________
Astral Weeks - a spacecraft adrift, its lone crewman, known only as Van, develops a God complex and goes slowly insane. A film described as 'worthy' and 'important' but which few will ever watch, and even less understand.
ReplyDelete