Three Women - Softcover

Piercy, Marge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749932007 ISBN 13: 9780749932008

Publisher: Piatkus, 2000

Synopsis

Suzanne Blume has survived two marriages, financially supported two children through college and her teaching duties at a Boston university allow her just enough time to take on important legal cases and spend time with her closest friend. Life in her forties has also yielded some unexpected pleasures - she is enjoying her first sexual relationship in years. But her neat, buttoned-up life starts to unravel when her daughter Elena returns home, angry and unemployed. Can mother and daughter rebuild their fragmented relationship? And what of Suzanne's own mother? Having devoted her life to men and politics with passion, fiercely independent Beverly is now coping with the effects of a stroke and is also forced to share Suzanne's home and rely on the conventional daughter she has never had much time for . . . Marge Piercy, the critically acclaimed author of Woman on the Edge of Time, Braided Lives and Body of Glass, weaves one of her most compelling novels yet. Three Women is told from the viewpoint of three generations of one unforgettable family as they learn to accept love, life and one another.

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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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0749932007
• ISBN 13: 9780749932008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320