So if the narrative wasn’t good enough I just love the design of this book. It was a suggestion from an American friend who claimed it was a ‘coming of age classic’. The book was published by MTV which I thought was very unusual but I guess using big names associated with a younger audience would entice more to read it. I found a second hand copy in Harvard Book Store, Boston. There was an old bookmark inside which had the Florida zip code in… I love the idea that the book has been read and enjoyed by someone, somewhere else in the world; I am less obliged to give up the book and send it on its travels once more.
The book is a epistolary novel; narrated by a teenager who goes by the alias of "Charlie"; he describes various scenes in his life by writing a series of letters to an anonymous person, whom he does not know personally.
The lime green cover (my go to colour!) has a small-cropped sepia photograph in the top right hand corner of a boys legs donned in smart trousers and shoes. The image is so old and intriguing in comparison to the contemporary colour and minimal typeface on the cover.
I feel the cover reflects the anonymous, captivating storyline the book has to offer