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The Cover Girl is about just that: the girl on the cover of albums and magazines. The girl who exists in the context of an ad and is a projection of everyone who sees her – and the woman she becomes. It’s the story of an aging model, Birdie Rhodes, who looks back on her relationships with the two people that defined her life: the rock star who made himself her legal guardian after she posed for his album cover at age 15 and her legendary former agent.
This is the third title for the book; it went on submission under Look Away – a nod to the Iggy Pop song about his role in the 70s baby groupie era and the amount of silence that made situations like Birdie’s possible – and it was announced under another. We finally decided on The Cover Girl to give readers that immediate hint that they were getting a book that deals with the modeling industry.
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