by Brian O’Doherty,
published by Arcadia, £11.99
designed by Richard Bates at Discript
JO: Ireland.
QN: McGreevy, O’Doherty, a graveyard, hats, a bicycle and a deposition. You know it’s got to be about Ireland, Catholicism, a small community. What do we think about it, wearing our design hats?
JO: It is trying to look intelligent, above fashion, it uses a painting, and the type is very conservative.
QN: I think the design process went like this: the writer or the editor has said to the designer, ‘Look you must use this painting’, and he has just stuck it on the cover and made the top blue. The colour of the type is horrible.
The Deposition of Father McGreevy
A tale of decay in rural Ireland. Father McGreevy is a heartbroken priest, defrocked after the heartless dispersal of the people of his mountain village in County Kerry during World War II.
Book synopsis edited from The Guardian
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