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Between Then and Now, by Alba de Céspedes. With rare skill and unrelenting candor the author writes of a woman who rejects the bonds of husband and family only to find that freedom can be a burden...
BETWEEN THEN AND Now (160 pp.)-Alba de Céspedes-Houghton Mifflin...
...Alba de Céspedes writes so well about what it means to be a woman that she makes both male and female readers uneasy. She uses only one literary trick: unrelenting candor. And the only thing one can be sure of when her novels end is that life goes on. Daughter of a Cuban diplomat father and an Italian mother, Author de Céspedes writes with a Mediterranean mixture of controlled passion and shrugging resignation...
Like the honest writer she is. Alba de Céspedes simply lets her heroine discover that a room of one's own-and a man not quite one's own-are not enough...
...fight began last March, when United Artists mailed 2,268 postcard reproductions of the painting to editors, film and record distributors as a promotion stunt for a film about Goya and his great and good friend, the Duchess of Alba, supposedly the model for The Maja. The Post Office took one look, pronounced them obscene and seized them...