Karl Ove Knausgaard and his multi-volume My Struggle epic (see reviews of volumes one and two, with more to follow) is getting a nice lot of attention.
In the US the series is coming out in hardcover from Archipelago Books, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux then publishing each volume in paperback.
Archipelago prints their copies in a more or less uniform look, boxy books with a cover design like this:
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The FSG paperbacks were originally designed (and the first one published) as:
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Clik here to view.
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Clik here to view.
Universally reviled and ridiculed -- and presumably not selling as well as hoped for -- FSG appears to have had a change of heart -- and cover-designer. The first three volumes now look like this:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Looks a bit more promising .....
(But if you got a copy of the original FSG-volume one paperback, hold onto it -- collector's edition !)
In the US the series is coming out in hardcover from Archipelago Books, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux then publishing each volume in paperback.
Archipelago prints their copies in a more or less uniform look, boxy books with a cover design like this:
Clik here to view.

The FSG paperbacks were originally designed (and the first one published) as:
Clik here to view.

Clik here to view.

Universally reviled and ridiculed -- and presumably not selling as well as hoped for -- FSG appears to have had a change of heart -- and cover-designer. The first three volumes now look like this:
Clik here to view.

Clik here to view.

Clik here to view.

Looks a bit more promising .....
(But if you got a copy of the original FSG-volume one paperback, hold onto it -- collector's edition !)