Sheltered Lives Author:Mary Hazzard A novel about a young woman's journey from New England to New Mexico in the ninteen-sixties. Gail Godwin described it as "an honest, elegant, individualistic narrative about a woman making an effort to re-evaluate herself in terms of her marriage, her childhood influences, her relation to a new environment and a changing world." "Mary Hazzard ha... more »s developed into a fine and careful recorder of human relationships during a period of social disorder...She has a special talent...for seeing the trendy and pompous surfaces of people as clearly as she sees their tentative inner lives."—The Philadelphia Inquirer« less