Sex Wars: A Novel Of Gilded Age New York, Marge Piercy. Piercy's novel explores the formative years of feminism through the intersecting lives of four characters. Three of them -- proto-feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, free love advocate Victoria Woodhull, and moralist Anthony Comstock -- were pi...
Marge Piercy is a phenomenal woman and writer. I can hardly take her novels they are so densely ladden with the minutiae and ordeals of daily living, but she knows what she's doing and does it as only she can, and god I admire her, even though she rarely writes the sort of novel I want to read. I...
It’s interesting how the lens of three decades of life experience can sharpen the focus of certain stories—and even parts of stories. When I first read Woman on the Edge of Time not long after it was published (1976), I was barely into my 20s and already a reliable cog in the corporate machine. A...
I was really disappointed with the way characters were written in this novel - the "three women" are all severely whiny and self-obsessed, especially Beverley and Elena, who act like spoiled and ignorant children. Elena, ironically, constantly criticizes her mother's "bourgeois" and "boring" life...
A rarity, my friends--five stars. I seldom give that but a few books deserve it and this is one.Marge Piercy has taken ten major characters--six women and four men--and written a superb novel of the homefornt during World War II. She gives a very excellent portrayal of the hardships faced at ho...
An honest writer will admit that everything that he or she writes, down to a grocery list, is in some form autobiography, revealing the author's sense of life, core values, interests. The art of literary expression, like any art, is a self-portrait, and the higher the level of quality, the truer ...
This book had the worst font! It's the little things that bug me. The book was about the third child, Girl (of course), who is like lost in her little political family. She has two older sibs who are like her mothers pride and joy and then her and her brother who are kind of left out of everythin...
Five stars for compelling writing and a good story that moves quickly while giving readers plenty to consider about resistance and revolution, love and living. Life changes in an instant for Vida, and although such an abrupt turn was always a possibility she understood and was committed to, its c...
Almost ten years ago I discovered the author Marge Piercy when I read her novel He, She, and It. As I do with any author whose book I really, really love, I ran right out and bought every other book of hers I could get my hands on, including Small Changes, which the cover blurb promised showcased...
I wanted to like this book, since it had come highly recommended by another reader who said the author, Marge Piercy, was "amazing." I was able to keep reading the book only because I was trapped on a plane with it and had nothing else to read. Otherwise, I would not have made it past the first f...
I read ‘The High Cost of Living’ because Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and City of Darkness, City of Light impressed me so much. This novel is neither historic nor utopian, taking place in rather grim 1970s Detroit. ‘The High Cost of Living’ is told from the point of view of Leslie, a postgr...