The Third Child - Hardcover

Piercy, Marge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066211166 ISBN 13: 9780066211169

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2003

Synopsis

Feeling left out in her family of ambitious achievers, Melissa Dickenson hopes to escape her mother's relentless scrutiny when she enters college and falls in love with the son of her father's political adversary, unaware that he is hiding a dangerous secret that could destroy both their families. 40,000 first printing.

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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.

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: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0066211166
• ISBN 13: 9780066211169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 342