As a reader, though, an interesting blurb can be as effective as a striking book cover, especially when ... bawdy parody of Samuel Richardson’s pious novel, Pamela. It carried an enthusiastic ...

The unseemly business of book blurbing ... poem, so Samuel Beckett was a hopeless amateur when it came to coughing up a bit of Advance Praise. When he was asked to provide a blurb for the young ...