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This updated second edition of At Risk in America provides a detailed analysis of those key population groups most vulnerable to disease and injury in the United States today-including homeless persons, refugees and immigrants, people living with AIDS, alcohol and substance abusers, high-risk mothers and infants, victims of family or other violence, and the chronically or mentally ill. Lu Ann Aday reviews the major theories and knowledge concerning these at-risk groups and offers new approaches and methodologies for tracing the social determinants and societal influences on health. She examines the specific health needs and risks faced by these groups, their experience in the health care system, the current policies and programs that serve them, and the research and policy initiatives that might be undertaken to help reduce their vulnerability.

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Good Info.......2001-08-24

I thought that the book provided some good information, especially the latter half of the book which offered possible solutions and to improve the health situation of the populations that she identified as vulnerable. I wish the earlier chapters, which identify the vulnerable populations and the circumstances that increase their risk, were slightly more in depth. Overall, there is some strong data and Aday presents a pretty good look into the problem of the disproprtioante health risks that many people in America face.

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In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record.
According to the catastrophists, new species do not evolve gradually; they proliferate following sudden mass extinctions. Placing this major change of perspective within the context of a range of ancient debates, Palmer discusses such topics as the history of the solar system, present-day extraterrestrial threats to earth, hominid evolution, and the fossil record.

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Steps toward a new theory of evolution.......2006-03-06

As I prepared a review of this book for a science journal, I checked amazon to sample what others readers say. To my surprise, no readers have recorded their views. So I shall scribble a few words in the hope of drawing attention to this worthy study.

Palmer's controlling idea is that discoveries and conceptual innovation in the four fields covered point to a new theory of evolution in which natural selection will be reinterpreted or replaced by self-organization theory. The vacant space that the new theory will occupy is the gaping hole currently separating population genetics and molecular biology. He suggests that self-organization theory, a.k.a. non-linear dynamics, a.k.a. chaos theory, is the candidate for linking physico-chemical processes with molecular biology and organism behaviour. (The author, an enzyme biologist, is well positioned to sense this vacant space). The four fields covered are planetary science, geology, paleontology, and evolution theory. The uniting empirical theme is catastrophes of climatic and extra-terrestrial origin. The unifying conceptual theme is provided by the capacity of non-linear dynamics to combine equilibrium behaviour with many kinds of sudden shifts in system dynamics. These shifts are `catastrophes', be they microscopic or galactic.

When evolutionary theory took shape, its advocates had no inking of the mathematics of chaos theory. But they were aware of evidence for geophysical and biotic catastrophes, viz, apparent mass extinctions revealed by drastic discontinuities in biota between contiguous geological strata. The evidence was explained away as mere appearance and was replaced by the twin doctrines of Uniformitarianism and Gradualism. Uniformitarianism interpreted the vast changes in the elevation and subsidence as due to very slow processes, like erosion, acting over very long periods. Admittedly catastrophic events (volcanoes and earthquakes) were trivialized as local events with no geophysical implications. Similarly, the hundreds of meteors that illuminate the skies annually were dismissed as inconsequential (when they were acknowledged at all). The planetary system was taken to be the paradigm of orderly uniform process governed by natural laws. This was an erroneous interpretation of Newton's theory. Kepler's discovery of the elliptical orbit of the planets, and the gravitational explanation of their position and orbits implied the possibility of cometary impacts on Earth and other planets. Indeed Newton believed that such impacts had occurred. The first asteroid was discovered in 1801; a century later, about 500 had been discovered and it was known that tons of cosmic dust settle on Earth each year. In 1908 an asteroid explosion over Siberia visited ruin on an area the size of Belgium. This wake-up call was ignored. The Uniformitarian creed began to unravel only in 1980 when Nobel physicist Luis Alvarez proposed that 65 million years ago a ten kilometre diameter asteroid impact caused the K-T boundary mass extinction. Today, many heated words later, we know that there are billions, perhaps trillions, of asteroids and comets in the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud. They constitute the solar system as a cosmic shooting gallery. Not only have they bombarded all the planets and their satellites, but they also bombard one another. Hundreds of meteorites reach the Earth annually. Strikes large enough to produce effects on a global scale occur about every million years. The lunar surface is exemplary of the density of impacts that the Earth has received. They number in the thousands; some craters are 3200 kilometers diameter. So much for the irenic Newtonian universe. But there is more. Life on Earth is also subject to the effects of coroneal mass ejections, solar flares, tectonic movements, flood basalt volcanoes, super nova explosions, polar reversals, and the Earth's variable declination on its rotational axis, any of which may have catastrophic effects, and some of which have very likely had such effects.

The planetary science here adumbrated is largely the product of new data gathering technologies associated with satellite probes and telescopes. It's a whole new world, significantly discontinuous with pre-1970 astronomy. The Uniformitarian conception assumed by Nineteenth Century evolution theory wasn't consistent even with the astronomy of that time, as I have mentioned. Today it is merely quaint, except that it is also a monument to the power and persistence of well-intentioned scientific error. The error meant is not, of course, the failure of earlier generations to know only what posterity would discover, but the claim of dogmatic certainty for theory that was heavily compromised by discordant facts and inconsistency.

The locus of this controversy is the `Darwin wars' that erupted when some paleontologists (S.J. Gould, Niles Eldredge, Steven Stanley, David Raup, David Jablonki) blew the whistle on Gradualism, substituting a Punctuated Equilibrium pattern instead. The neo-Darwinian orthodoxy initially opposed the alternative hypothesis as gross error. But then, when mass extinctions were accepted (repugnant to orthodoxy because they imply catastrophic causation), and the sudden origin of many new phyla in short times was confirmed, neo-Darwinians changed their tune: the heretics are now denounced for perpetrating the calumny that Gradualist theory ever denied the punctuation pattern! Protest as they might, nothing in standard theory explains highly variable evolutionary rates, the variation being, at one end, stasis over hundreds of millions of years, and at the other, a profusion of new phyla in short bursts (the Cambrian `big bang' is the classic example). Gradualist theory was formulated in the absence of knowledge of variation and only some glimmerings about what made orthogenesis work. It would thus be a stroke of extraordinary good luck if the proposed mechanism of change, natural selection, turned out to be right. When the Nineteen Century closed, Darwinians were in a frantic chase-fruitless as it turned out-for a slam dunk proof of the evolution of a single species. When the Twentieth Century closed, neo-Darwinians were in damage control to salvage the one and only slam dunk proof of evolution, industrial melanism, from dismissal on the grounds of tampered evidence. The use-by date of natural selection is long over due. Palmer's study assists recognizing that fact, and points the way to new theory.

Steps toward a new theory of evolution.......2004-07-02

Palmer's controlling idea is that discoveries and conceptual innovation in the four fields covered point to a new theory of evolution in which natural selection will be reinterpreted or replaced by self-organization theory. The vacant space that the new theory will occupy is the gaping hole currently separating population genetics and molecular biology. He suggests that self-organization theory, a.k.a. non-linear dynamics, a.k.a. chaos theory, is the candidate for linking physico-chemical processes with molecular biology and organism behaviour. (The author, an enzyme biologist, is well positioned to sense this vacant space). The four fields covered are planetary science, geology, paleontology, and evolution theory. The uniting empirical theme is catastrophes of climatic and extra-terrestrial origin. The unifying conceptual theme is provided by the capacity of non-linear dynamics to combine equilibrium behaviour with many kinds of sudden shifts in system dynamics. These shifts are 'catastrophies', be they microscopic or galactic.

When evolutionary theory took shape, its advocates had no inking of the mathematics of chaos theory. But they were aware of evidence for geophysical and biotic catastrophes, viz, apparent mass extinctions revealed by drastic discontinuities in biota between contiguous geological strata. The evidence was explained away as mere appearance and was replaced by the twin doctrines of Uniformitarianism and Gradualism. Uniformitarianism interpreted the vast changes in the elevation and subsidence as due to very slow processes, like erosion, acting over very long periods. Admittedly catastrophic events (volcanoes and earthquakes) were trivialized as local events with no geophysical implications. Similarly, the hundreds of meteors that illuminate the skies annually were dismissed as inconsequential (when they were acknowledged at all). The planetary system was taken to be the paradigm of orderly uniform process governed by natural laws. This was an erroneous interpretation of Newton's theory. Kepler's discovery of the elliptical orbit of the planets, and the gravitational explanation of their position and orbits implied the possibility of cometary impacts on Earth and other planets. Indeed Newton believed that such impacts had occurred. The first asteroid was discovered in 1801; a century later, about 500 had been discovered and it was known that tons of cosmic dust settle on Earth each year. In 1908 an asteroid explosion over Siberia visited ruin on an area the size of Belgium. This wake-up call was ignored. The Uniformitarian creed began to unravel only in 1980 when Nobel physicist Luis Alvarez proposed that 65 million years ago a ten kilometre diameter asteroid impact caused the K-T boundary mass extinction. Today, many heated words later, we know that there are billions, perhaps trillions, of asteroids and comets in the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud. They constitute the solar system as a cosmic shooting gallery. Not only have they bombarded all the planets and their satellites, but they also bombard one another. Hundreds of meteorites reach the Earth annually. Strikes large enough to produce effects on a global scale occur about every million years. The lunar surface is exemplary of the density of impacts that the Earth has received. They number in the thousands; some craters are 3200 kilometers diameter. So much for the irenic Newtonian universe. But there is more. Life on Earth is also subject to the effects of coroneal mass ejections, solar flares, tectonic movements, flood basalt volcanoes, super nova explosions, polar reversals, and the Earth's variable declination on its rotational axis, any of which may have catastrophic effects, and some of which have very likely had such effects.

The planetary science here adumbrated is largely the product of new data gathering technologies associated with satellite probes and telescopes. It's a whole new world, significantly discontinuous with pre-1970 astronomy. The Uniformitarian conception assumed by Nineteenth Century evolution theory wasn't consistent even with the astronomy of that time, as I have mentioned. Today it is merely quaint, except that it is also a monument to the power and persistence of well-intentioned scientific error. The error meant is not, of course, the failure of earlier generations to know only what posterity would discover, but the claim of dogmatic certainty for theory that was heavily compromised by discordant facts and inconsistency.

The locus of this controversy is the 'Darwin wars' that erupted when some paleontologists (S.J. Gould, Niles Eldredge, Steven Stanley, David Raup, David Jablonki) blew the whistle on Gradualism, substituting a Punctuated Equilibrium pattern instead. The neo-Darwinian orthodoxy initially opposed the alternative hypothesis as gross error. But then, when mass extinctions were accepted (repugnant to orthodoxy because they imply catastrophic causation), and the sudden origin of many new phyla in short times was confirmed, neo-Darwinians changed their tune: the heretics are now denounced for perpetrating the calumny that Gradualist theory ever denied the punctuation pattern! Protest as they might, nothing in standard theory explains highly variable evolutionary rates, the variation being, at one end, stasis over hundreds of millions of years, and at the other, a profusion of new phyla in short bursts (the Cambrian 'big bang' is the classic example). Gradualist theory was formulated in the absence of knowledge of variation and only some glimmerings about what made orthogenesis work. It would thus be a stroke of extraordinary good luck if the proposed mechanism of change, natural selection, turned out to be right. When the Nineteen Century closed, Darwinians were in a frantic chase-fruitless as it turned out-for a slam dunk proof of the evolution of a single species. When the Twentieth Century closed, neo-Darwinians were in damage control to salvage the one and only slam dunk proof of evolution, industrial melanism, from dismissal on the grounds of tampered evidence. The use-by date of natural selection is long past. Palmer's study assists recognizing that fact, and points the way to new theory.

. . . and he's NOT a creationist!.......2003-07-16

It's hard to know where to begin when confronted with this outstanding tome. Trevor Palmer has no theological axe to grind ("Then, as now, there were religious fundamentalists whose minds were closed to scientific argument . . . " p. 82), but I find he's saying exactly what creation scientists are saying - albeit indirectly. Indeed, he states on p. xi, ". . . the Modern Synthesis, if not actually wrong, is far from complete" and a few lines later admits that natural selection is mainly a stabilizing factor, not involved in "driving evolution forward" - this from a man who was an undergrad at the same Cambridge College (Christ's) as Charles Darwin! Palmer realizes he may be giving us non-Darwinists too much ammo, so he places his faith in 'self-organization' - although he admits it's "still lacking an experimental basis" p. 283.
The crux of Palmer's book is that Earth's history is indeed a record of massive catastrophic events (e.g. Table 4.1). He takes the reader through the history of scientific thought prior to Darwin where most naturalists believed in the Flood - on through the Dark Ages of uniformitarianism (and all its hybrids), to the present age of neo-catastrophism, being careful to distance this movement from Bible-believing scientists, ". . . 20th century catastrophism is no longer handicapped (or at least, not to anything like the same extent as once was the case) by supposed associations with unscientific [sic] dogmatism" p. 342.
Palmer bashes other critics of macroevolution, fellow Britishers Francis Hitching and Richard Milton, and then pretty much goes on to say what they have been saying in their books.
His section on "human evolution" (The Erratic Descent of Man) and origin of life review are themselves worth the price of the book, and his reference section is incredible.
Here's what I find so refreshing with what atheist Palmer is saying- he has reviewed neo-Darwinism (gradualism) and uniformitarianism and found them lacking. The reasons and scientific evidences he gives are exactly what creation scientists have been saying for many decades. Palmer and others state there was a series of mass extinctions (section 4.5). This was secular heresy 3 decades ago - you didn't dare tell a geologist this! Meanwhile creationists have been saying there was one massive Extinction Event (Genesis 6 - 9). Slowly but surely geologists are coming - screaming and kicking - to a biblical view of earth history, and they are doing so because of the scientific evidence, not in spite of it. Palmer's book is an expensive must for the creation activist.

Review from The Geological Journal.......2003-01-25

"Anyone in the business of teaching evolution will find it a useful resource, especially for its extensive referencing..."

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This innovative reference collects state-of-the-art procedures for the construction and design of nanoparticles and porous material while suggesting appropriate areas of application. Presenting both synthesis and characterization protocols, Surfaces of Nanoparticles and Porous Materials contains over 3000 references, tables, equations, drawings, and photographs. It examines the thermodynamics and kinetics of adsorption involving organic and inorganic liquids, solids, and gaseous media.. Topics include characterization, transport processes, diffusion, and the adsorption of heavy metals, ions, proteins, and pharmaceutical organics.

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Current Topics in Developmental Biology provides a comprehensive survey of the major topics in the field of developmental biology. The volumes are valuable to researchers in animal and plant development, as well as to students and professionals who want an introduction to cellular and molecular mechanisms of development. The series has recently passed its 30-year mark, making it the longest-running forum for contemporary issues in developmental biology.

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This book describes contemporary efforts to develop nano-molecular systems for future molecular electronics in which single molecules act as the basic elements in electrical circuits. While describing frontier research, it also gives a comprehensive introduction and discusses the related work being pursued worldwide. The book is composed of three parts. The first part describes the synthesis of novel molecules for molecular nano-systems. The second part deals mainly with nano-molecular systems on solid surfaces and the evaluation of the system with SPM. The third part reviews the theory required as a background for molecular electronics.

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Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep.

"You have English blood, like us," Miss Rose assured Eliza when she was old enough to understand. "Only someone from the British colony would have thought to leave you in a basket on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company, Limited. I am sure they knew how good-hearted my brother Jeremy is, and felt sure he would take you in. In those days I was longing to have a child, and you fell into my arms, sent by God to be brought up in the solid principles of the Protestant faith and the English language."

The family servant, Mama Fresia, has a different point of view, however: "You, English? Don't get any ideas, child. You have Indian hair, like mine." And certainly Eliza's almost mystical ability to recall all the events of her life would seem to stem more from the Indian than the Protestant side.

As Eliza grows up, she becomes less tractable, and when she falls in love with Joachin Andieta, a clerk in Jeremy's firm, her adoptive family is horrified. They are even more so when a now-pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California where he has gone to make his fortune in the 1849 gold rush. Along the way Eliza meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who saves her life and becomes her closest friend. What starts out as a search for a lost love becomes, over time, the discovery of self; and by the time Eliza finally catches up with the elusive Joachin, she is no longer sure she still wants what she once wished for. Allende peoples her novel with a host of colorful secondary characters. She even takes the narrative as far afield as China, providing an intimate portrait of Tao Chi'en's past before returning to 19th-century San Francisco, where he and Eliza eventually fetch up. Readers with a taste for the epic, the picaresque, and romance that is satisfyingly complex will find them all in Daughter of Fortune. --Margaret Prior

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An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 -- a danger-filled quest that will become a momentous journey of transformation. In this rough-and-tumble world of panhandlers and prostitutes, immigrants and aristocrats, Eliza will discover a new life of freedom, independence, and a love greater than any ever dreamed.

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The western dime novel becomes international literature.......2007-08-16

Joaquin Murieta it seems is the inspiration for a novel about a young girl, young love and 19th century culture in England and
in Chile.
The novelist is a master of plot and characterization who blends understanding of three major cultures: Chinese, English and Spanish-Latin American.
I have read novels by major Americans written in English ( not translated from Spanish) that weren't as well documented or as factual as this one.
There is no doubt that Isabel Allende is probably one of the major popular novelists of our time.
It is a western...
This novel deserves a read!

Gold Rush.......2007-07-26

Eliza is just a tiny baby when she is left in an empty box on the doorstep of Rose and Jeremy Sommers, a Victorian brother and sister living in relative luxury in a British colony in Chile. Rose is a young spinster who plans never to marry. Jeremy also seems destined for bachelorhood, and the two of them compliment each other well, although Rose does long for a child, if not a husband. When the baby is left on their doorstep, Rose insists they keep it and raise it as her own daughter.

So Eliza's young life is pleasant. She has the doting attention of both Rose, who teaches her refinement and culture, and the family's Chilean cook and housekeeper Fresia, who teaches her superstition, herbal remedies and cooking. Eliza is sheltered and pampered and she never thinks to question her place or her future, until she is a teenager and catches sight of Joaquin, a poor worker. It is love at first sight for both young people, and they begin a scandalous and secret affair.

Eliza's first love affair may have burned itself out, but at the height of their passions, the California Gold Rush begins. Chile is closer to California than China and is even closer than much of the United States, so every poor dreamer in the country is sure they can get there first to pick up the gold nuggets everyone says are just lying on the ground. Much of the country's youth is taken with gold fever. Joaquin is no exception, and he soon ships out to find his fortune. Eliza simply cannot do without him, so she stows away on a ship also headed to California, determined to find her lover and intertwine their futures. Nobody seems to have calculated the risk involved in such a move, though, and the devastating losses that all will suffer.

I liked the way this book captured the frenzy of the rush to California, followed by the slower organization of the state into cities devoted to making a living and a life, instead of just mining. However, I thought Eliza's particular experience was very simple, with all sorts of lucky breaks and coincidences that allowed her to escape almost all of the hardship of the Gold Rush.

Chick Book.......2007-06-28

A young girl who travels from Chile to California to found her boyfriend that got her pregnant. Can you say "chick book?" At times I found the culture of Chile interesting, but there was very little of the plot that I found interesting. Another good thing about the book is the many mentions of brothels and women of the night. It does make you wonder if prostitution was so prevalent in California during the gold rush.

Subtle presence of Native themes.......2007-06-12

I wouldn't call "Daughter of Fortune" a Native-themed book because the Native presence is muted. But Eliza's mother is Chilean, so she's part Native. More important, Eliza's upbringing is a tug-of-war between Rose, the Englishwoman who represents intellect, artificiality, and constraint, and Mama Fresia, the Indian woman who represents passion, genuineness, and freedom.

When Eliza escapes to America, the land of opportunity, her Indian side comes to the fore. Like the Californians around her, she learns to eschew antiquated concepts such as honor, propriety, and convention. In other words, she throws off the shackles of European civilization and becomes a "noble savage."

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Daughter of Fortune.......2007-05-28

This book was excellent. It was beautifully written and historically intriguing. The story really moved along nicely for about 3/4 of the book. It was the last 1/4 that began to move slowly however. It ended rather anti-climactic with only a partial resolution, which for a story such as it is, might be preferable I suppose.

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A Tale of Love and Lost
Absorbing
great summer read
picaresque novel

Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.)
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An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She enters a rough-and-tumble world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. With the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, Eliza moves freely in a society of single men and prostitutes, creating an unconventional but independent life for herself. The young Chilean's search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey, and by the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is.

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A Tale of Love and Lost.......2007-08-30

Isabel Allende's A Daughter of Fortune begins slowly but gradually pulls the reader in.

Eliza Sommers is given a life of opportunities when she is taken in by a Victorian spinster. She is given a better life, but leaves all of that when she falls in love. When her lover goes to California during the Gold Rush and Eliza discovers she is pregnant, she leaves Chile in search of her lover.

The voyage and transformation that ensues is captivating and will bring tears to your eyes.

Absorbing.......2007-08-18

A great plot with well-developed characters,educational and rich in historical and social detail. After reading of the wars between the US and Mexico with the acquisition of California in 1850, the opium wars between China and Great Britain around 1839, and the French revolution with the terror of the Napoleonic wars which is mentioned in flashback and considering the present situation of the world the reader discovers why we all can't just get along!!!
Also remarkable is the place of women back then, the plight of newborn baby girls in China and the frequency of natural disasters.Life was surely nasty, brutish and short.
The plot which deals with the foundling child Eliza Sommers taken in by the erratic English woman Rose Sommers is interesting. Eliza's journey to California in search of her lover who had preceded her in search of gold, leads her not only to discover freedom but to find love in an unlikely source. Very well done!

great summer read.......2007-08-10

My book group of course loved this book. Allende takes her time to build the characters and the story (about the first 80 pages) and then you are hooked. Good story, strong characters, very sexual, really tender. We'd recommend it for any book group not hung up on sexual content, language and sometimes brutual scenes.

picaresque novel.......2007-03-16

an absorbimg novel in Allende's imimitable style of blending fiction with historical background.

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