Jacket quote

Usage examples of blurb.

Hugo Gernsback, the publisher, was moved to write a special editorial instead of the customary blurb for this story.

The blurb mocks itself: Van knows its buoyant blitheness reflects only his own first raptures at Ardis, not his later discovery that life always mixes radiance and remorse.

A book can be produced in a slipshod manner or it can have a repulsive book jacket, or include blurbs that give away the plot or clearly indicate that the blurb writer didn follow the plot.

If you sell a story to a magazine you may feel it is incompetently illustrated, or dislike the blurb, or worry about misprints.

There, squeezed in among elections, bounties, union warnings, draft notices, tax bulletins, was the brief blurb on Claron.

The blurb had been sponsored by the Langstretch Detective Agency, which in turn started Floyt fretting over Alacrity and wondering what was happening to him.

Contrast its restrained tone with, say, the products of modern advertising, political speeches, authoritative theological pronouncements - or for that matter the blurb on the cover of this book.

And when blurbs to that effect became available from other authors and critics, Little, Brown put them on postcards and dispatched another series of three.

I need to know if you sent any copies out for blurbs without telling me?

Softened up and spoonfed by these glutinous blurbs, the actors then fell refreshed into the carping, spite-crammed dialogue, which gave them the chance to express their real feelings about each other.

The blurb was worded to persuade cynics like me that hiring an escort was no iffier than hiring a carpet shampooer, and a lot more fun.

To be made even triter than the original Book of the Fortnight, and its gurgling blurbs?

Janusz, the Rasputin lookalike outlaw, appeared in a forthright Wanted blurb.

A DRAGON IN THE LAND OF DRAGONS, as The New fork Times had uncharacteristically blurbed it If we could just get the dragon to eat its own tail .

As I shuffled down the aisle with my Orwell and my pint, and as an hysterical voice-over blurbed the coming attractions ('.