1959 A Novel

Editions of ‘1959’, Thulani Davis’ coming-of-age novel set in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, utilize images from at least two major photographers: Marion Post Wolcotts graphically striking picture of a black man climbing stairs to the Colored entrance of a movie theatre (1992 Hamish Hamilton edition) has a more direct correspondence to the novels subject matter than the jacket of the 1993 edition from Harper Perennial, on which designer Honi Werner has rendered a semi-abstract painting from a small, central detail of Nan Goldins dreamlike Sun hits the road, Shandaken, N.Y. 1983 (The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Aperture 1986, p.117). KB