January 14, 2000

Books

Under the Rose

Under the RoseA ConfessionFlavia AlayaThe Feminist Press, $25.95, 400 pp.

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

Things happen. Someone writes a version of events and it becomes history’s first draft. Even when you have personally watched "things happen," there will be eye openers when you see them in print. The story we have told ourselves (and others) and the version we finally read will have a core resemblance, but then diverge in critically important details. Minor ones come t (...)


 

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