Looking Back by Joyce Maynard (Avon)

ITC Bernase Roman with the typical tight 1970s spacing, including an L slid under the adjacent o. The k sporting a ball terminal was included in the font as alternate. This is Avon’s paperback edition of the first book by Joyce Maynard:

First published in 1973, when its author was nineteen years old, Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties has become a classic to many of the baby boom generation, for its sharply observed account of coming of age during turbulent times.

From the description to a later edition:

Joyce Maynard was eighteen years old when her 1972 New York Times Magazine cover story catapulted her to national prominence. Published one year later, Looking Back is her remarkable follow-up – part memoir, part cultural history, and part social critique. She wrote about diving under her desk for air-raid practice during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and catching the first glimpse (on the cover of Life magazine) of a human fetus in utero.