Title: Emotional Jungle
Author: Ann Freeman
Cover artist: Uncredited
Yours for: not for sale
Best things about this cover:
- That lamp shade is epic.
- Who's up for some awkward, joyless, pasty sex? Anyone?
- "So ... you like pink, I guess, huh?"
- The first ever meeting of the Jaundiced Hair support group is about to begin.
- I don't buy that he is "slipping into her room." He has the distinct look of someone backing slowly toward safety.
Best things about this back cover:
- Love how Sanford Aday (publisher of Fabian Books) uses this quotation from Romans (on many of his books from this era) as a big middle finger to his censorious detractors. During this period he was adding anti-censorship material to the back matter of his books. This one has a one-page screed against censors and the several pages of Supreme Court and other legal decisions supporting the freedom of speech, and particularly the freedoms of book publishers and sellers. It's a fascinating (completely invisible, these days) intervention into the discussion of what counts as obscenity and what the government's role toward alleged obscenity ought to be.
Page 123~
"Gwen, I'm sorry abut the other day."
"Forget it. We all have days like that."
He added: "No, really. I had no right to tell you you had hair like an Oompa Loompa. That was totally uncalled for. I could have just kept backing silently out of the room..."
~RP
