Three Women

Author: Marge Piercy

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  • : $24.99 NZD
  • : 9780749932008
  • : Piatkus Books
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  • : September 2000
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Marge Piercy
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780749932008
9780749932008

Description

Suzanne Blume has brought up two children and is enjoying her first sexual relationship in 10 years. Then her daughter Elena has returns angry and unemployed, and her own mother is having to cope with age and illness. This book tells their story as they learn to accept love, life and each other.

Reviews

Every new novel by Marge Piercy is cause for celebration., Three Women stretches ordinary thinkingVividly imagined and deeply satisfying, Piercy writes with high intelligence, love for the world, ethical passion and innate feminism., Here is somebody with the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love for the truth and a need to tell it., Every new novel by Marge Piercy is cause for celebration, Vividly imagined and deeply satisfying, Marge Piercy is one of the most important writers of our time, Here is someone with the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love for the truth and a need to tell it, Piercy writes with high intelligence, love for the world, ethical passion and innate feminism, Marge Piercy can seat 15 strangers around a Thanksgiving table and by the time dessert is served you'll know all of them, If you enjoy a good character centred novel. . .then this book is definitely for you but be prepared and have a box of tissues on hand as it will tug at your heartstrings remorselessly, an insightful look at tangled emotional ties, Marge Piercy's women leap off the pages and into the reader's imagination . . . A superbly written novel, thoughtfully told, gripping . . . The various sub-plots are brilliantly interwoven in a nail-biting novel

Author description

Marge Piercy is renowned as both a poet and a novelist and has won the Arthur C. Clarke award. She lives in Cape Cod, US, with her husband, the novelist Ira Wood, and five cats.