The Raw Shark Texts
Author: Steven Hall
Project Type: Speculative
Details:
Described as “the bastard love child of The Matrix, Jaws and The DaVinci Code,” Steven Hall’s debut novel invokes elements of science-fiction, psychological thriller and concrete poetry in order to weave a complex tale about trauma, identity and conceptual fish.
My jacket is definitely a darker interpretation of Hall’s novel, which is actually a little playful in its style. However, I personally found it to be the kind of story that actually gets darker the longer you sit with it. The ocean, obviously, plays a huge roll in the imagery of this story, even if it is mostly a “conceptual” ocean, so I wanted to depict something that represented a kind of psychological drowning in order to create a more interpretive cover.
