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Spacks has published numerous books, including “The Female Imagination” (1975), for which she received a National Book Award nomination, “Gossip” (1985), “Desire and Truth” (1990), “Boredom” (1995), “Privacy” (2003), and “Novel Beginnings” (2006).

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