Three Women - Softcover

Piercy, Professor Marge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060937025 ISBN 13: 9780060937027

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2002

Synopsis

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 time in her life, she needs Suzanne's help.

Intertwining the lives of three generations of contemporary women, master storyteller Marge Piercy plunges into the deepest, most elemental basics of life -- love, aging, illness, and death -- and emerges with a brave, compassionate exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters.

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Review:

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

About the Author:

Marge Piercy is the author of the memoir Sleeping with Cats and fifteen novels, including Three Women and Woman on the Edge of Time, as well as sixteen books of poetry, including Colors Passing Through Us, The Art of Blessing the Day, and Circles on the Water. She lives on Cape Cod, with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist and publisher of Leapfrog Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060937025
• ISBN 13: 9780060937027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320