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"This is the fascinating story of Connie Ramos, a Chicana woman in her mid-thirties, living in New York and labeled insane, committed to a mental institution. But the truth is that Connie is overwhelmingly sane, heroically sane, and tuned into the future. Connie is able to communicate with the year 2137. Two totally different ways of life are competing. One is beautiful--communal, nonsexist, environmentally pure, open to ritual and magic. The other...
5) Three women
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
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309 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approved of her choices, has been felled by age and illness. And, for the first...
6) Sex wars
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English
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Coming of age in a post-Civil War New York City tenement flat, Jewish-Russian Freydeh juggles multiple jobs to earn passage for her family, until she learns that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
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342 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, Melissa is the third child in the politically prominent Dickenson family, where ambition comes first and Melissa often comes last. In college, she meets Blake, a man of mixed race and apparently unknown parentage. His adoptive parents are lawyers whose defense of death-row cases in the past brought them head-to-head with Melissa's father when he was the governor...
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Writer Leila Landsman turns to work when her marriage unravels. Becky Burgess thought she had escaped her poverty-stricken past. Now she finds herself accused of murder. And Mary Burke finds herself divorced, homeless and alone. Three different women that want the same things--to have a physical and emotional home that can't be taken away from them.
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English
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Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats.
With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class...
11) Storm tide
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Ballantine
Pub. Date
1998
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296 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A washed-up minor league pitcher gets more than he bargained for when his affair with an older woman draws him into a tangled web of deceit and scandal When Cape Cod high school star pitcher David Greene left home, everyone in his small beach town rallied behind his dream of making it in the pros. No one expected the local legend to return broke a few years later, with an undistinguished minor league record and a painful divorce behind him. As...
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
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x, 479 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Bestselling author Marge Piercy celebrates the lives of the brave and dedicated women who changed the destiny of a nation in this novel set during the French Revolution For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of eighteenth-century France, the lofty ideals of the coming revolution could not seem more abstract. But when Claire sees the gaping disparity between the poverty she has known and the lavish lives of aristocrats as her theater group...
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Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
1st ed.
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446 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book: A successful cookbook author discovers a shocking secret about her husband that turns her life upside-down in this novel of upheaval and self-empowerment After a cross-country tour promoting her latest cookbook, Daria Walker is ready to return to her beautiful home in an affluent Boston suburb and her beloved husband, Ross, a prominent attorney whose rough-hewn good looks have never stopped charming her. But when she...
15) Vida: a novel
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Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1979
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412 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy's classic bookend to the 60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 60s, she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement, a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of Life magazine-charismatic, passionate,...
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Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1982
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443 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Marge Piercy carries her portrait of the American experience back into the Fifties-that closed, repressive time in which forces for the upheavals of the Sixties ticked away underground. Spanning twenty years, and teeming with vivid characters, Braided Lives tells the powerful, unsentimental story of two young women coming of age.
Jill, fiercely independent, dark, Jewish, an intellectual with Detroit street smarts, is a poet, curious, avid of life-a...
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Passions flare in a most unlikely love triangle between three remarkable characters facing arduous life challenges in this engrossing novel by bestselling author Marge Piercy Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Leslie, a history grad student, follows her thesis advisor from Grand Rapids to Detroit for a fresh start. There she befriends seventeen-year-old Honor, who sparks a familiar passion within her. Feeling that she...
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PM Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Marge Piercy's debut collection of short stories brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy's novels, the collection spans decades of her writing along with a range of locations, ages, and emotional states of her protagonists. From the first-person account of hoarding and a girl's narrative of sexual and spiritual...
20) Going down fast
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Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
1984, c1969
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
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343 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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When their neighborhood is marked for urban renewal, four tenacious city dwellers band together in the face of a wealthy and powerful institution A local university plans to bulldoze and replace parts of a predominantly African American Chicago slum with student housing. But for those who live there, the affordable if run-down homes are havens for creativity and self-exploration, and a setting for developing meaningful relationships. Among the residents...
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