Best of
Love

1973

black is brown is tan


Arnold Adoff - 1973
    White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children into bed. Children who are all the colors of the race, growing up happy in a house full of love. This is the way it is for them; this is the way they are, but the joy they feel extends to every reader of this book.Black is brown is tan is a story poem about being, a beautiful true song about a family delighting in each other and in the good things of the earth.

Petronella


Jay Williams - 1973
    She attempts a daring escape--but is she rescuing the right man? A modern fantasy classic, full of wit and surpise, with an admirable herione and spectacular new illustrations.

The Middleman


Sankar - 1973
    It wasn't very late, but Somnath felt as though the sun had suddenly set on impenetrable forest, giving way to a dangerous darkness.'1970s Calcutta. The city is teeming with thousands of young men in search of work. Somnath Banerjee spends his days queuing up at the employment exchange. Unable to find a job despite his qualifications, Somnath decides to go into the order - supply business as a middleman. His ambition drives him to prostitute an innocent girl for a contract that will secure the future of Somnath Enterprises. As Somnath grows from an idealistic young man into a corrupt businessman, the novel becomes a terrifying portrait of the price the city extracts from its youth.

Looking on Darkness


André P. Brink - 1973
    In 1973 this book was banned by the Apartheid South African Government.Looking On Darkness tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover.

The Faber Book of Love Poems


Geoffrey Grigson - 1973
    Geoffrey Grigson was arguably the century's greatest poetry anthologist -- a man whose breadth of reading was equaled only by his infallible taste.