Blue Fire / Black Amber by Phyllis A. Whitney (incredibly GOOD 1964 HC, 470 pages, HC)
Please visit www.faithbooks23.com for more vintage books!In very good condition: dust jacket, cover, and pages have some wear; some light discoloration; pages are unmarked; binding is tight.Blue Fire: When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home in Cape Town, it’s with the innocence of a young girl. She remembers only the beauty of South Africa—and the pain of being abandoned by her father. Now, with a new perspective, she sees a country destroyed by apartheid. And her father, once accused of diamond smuggling, seems not the ogre she imagined, but a broken man powerless against the prison term that wrenched him from his daughter’s arms.Black Amber: Tracy Hubbard, an up-and-comer at a prestigious New York City publisher, has arrived at a sprawling villa on the Bosporus strait in Istanbul for an enviable arrangement. She’s come to assist celebrated artist Miles Radburn with his new book on the history of Turkish art.