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a love affair ignites”; the original 1992 blurb began “Written on the Body is a book for the human condition.”) The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory ...

The book’s promotional blurb describes Turbo-Capitalism as an “exposé of the hidden effects of today’s free-market capitalism” where “private enterprise (is) liberated from government regulation, ...

VCS Department Chair Tom Huhn recently wrote a blurb for the book Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History by William S. Allen, with was published in earlier this year by Bloomsbury Academic press. Here ...

As a reader, though, an interesting blurb can be as effective as a striking book cover, especially when you’re browsing in a bookstore, trying to decide between several tempting choices.

Ryssdal: Yeah, you’ll pay that price. There’s no requirement that people actually have read the book, right, when they blurb? Grady: Basically, no. It’s kind of an honor system situation.

A “blurb” (also known as a “quote”) is an endorsement, often from another author, celebrity or public figure, which publishers include on the covers and inside pages of new books.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian on its cover. “A ...