Sheltered Lives

About the Book

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."

About the Author

Mary Hazzard has written four novels and numerous plays. A Yale Drama graduate, she has received fellowships from the NEA, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. Her 1999 novel Family Blood won the Ariadne Fiction Prize. She lives near Boston.