BETWEEN THEN AND Now (160 pp.)—Alba de Céspedes—Houghton Mifflin ($3).
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.
The Best of Husbands (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952) and The Secret (TIME, Oct....