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a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes

Lillian Rubin's tenth book examines the lives of women as they grow from daughters into mothers and move on into the intimidating territory of old age

In the Shadow of the State: Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America UPDATE:Default Title persuasiveAuthor Contributor(s): Miller, Nicola Publisher: Verso Date: 11 17 1999 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Carlos Fuentes once observed that to be a Spanish American intellectual was to fulfill the roles, by default, of a tribune, a member of parliament, a labor leader, a journalist, a redeemer of his society. Such statements reflect the view that the regions intellectuals have often acted as substitutes for the structures of a civil society. An