Just before going on holiday I talked a bit about the
new Joe Hill novel due to be released
next year. No further details surfaced since then, so “NOS4R2” remains a mystery. However, Gollancz, the UK publisher of
Joe Hill’s upcoming novel, revealed the cover artwork for their edition. And it
is a thing of beauty. Taking a wild guess based on the registration plates highlighted
on both this cover and the preliminary US one I would say that Joe Hill’s novel
has something to do with a car – “Christine”
just popped into mind almost instantly because of the father-son relationship
between Joe Hill and Stephen King,
but without taking anything from the value of Joe Hill’s works, truly deserving
on their own and unaffected by this family connection – and vampires, because
after all “NOS4R2” can be read with little effort as Nosferatu. I am still
walking in the dark though and will continue to do so until further details
about Joe Hill’s novel will be disclosed. Nonetheless, the certain thing about
Joe Hill’s “NOS4R2” is that it has one excellent cover!
5 comments:
Except the cover reads NOS4R2, not NOS4A2.
Of course it does :) Thank you for pointing it out!
You're not off the mark, Mihai. In the US, the book is being called NOS4A2, while in the UK, it is being billed NOS4R2 for pronunciation reasons. Obviously, you have the UK cover. Confusing, eh?
That must be the reason for mixing the titles up. Or I am just looking for excuses :)
Anyway, I think that if the title is Nosferatu going for NOS4R2 seems the better choice. At least in my opinion.
It's funny. I just had a discussion with some fellow Harry Potter fans over the Philosopher's/ Sorcerer's "controversy". There the point was made that the change was because Americans comprehend philosopher differently than the British audience.
I made the point that luckily this is a tendency we see less and less these days, but obviously I was wrong - and this time it's the Brits who are going changing the titles.
For pronunciation issues, I too would have gone with the British NOS4R2, but at the end of the day it should be up to the author, what he wants his book to be called.
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