On the Final Cover of my Novel

My novel The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even went to press yesterday. Here is the final cover, designed by Michael Kellner. I love the design: it captures the quirky, off-beat feel of the story and pays homage to Duchamp in many different ways.

The excerpt on the back is the following: 

“It didn’t take me long to make friends with the
museum guard, a muscular young red-haired Irish
Bostonian named Bobby Sheridan. He sussed me out on
my first vigil in front of the ivory carving. After
I had been sitting in front of it for about an hour
he came over to ask me if I was OK. I told him I
was fine, very well actually, except for having a
minor mental illness. I explained to him that I had
obsessive compulsive disorder and couldn’t touch
anything, and also that I didn’t have to work because
my mother had died and I had inherited some money,
enough to live for a while on but not really a lot.
I explained to him that I was planning to spend many
months in his museum, not touching anything of course
but mainly just looking at a particular single piece
of art, namely the carving of Abraham and Isaac that
was in front of me. And I also let him know that I
always wore pretty much the same clothes but that I
changed my clothes and had a shower every day, and
that I was very careful about cleanliness as part of
my OCD. I drew his attention to some of the things
I appreciated so much about the ivory
carving, especially the ample bosom
and translucent wings of the
tiny angel.”