""FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION."--San Francisco Examiner & ChronicleIn her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts. Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory: if men can make things happen, ..."
He, She and It(Reprint) A Novel by MargePiercy Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1993 by Fawcett Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-449-22060-3, ISBN: 0-449-22060-5
""A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."Alice HoffmanIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, an ..."
Sex Wars(1st Edition) A Novel of Gilded Age New York by Professor MargePiercy Paperback, 422 Pages, Published 2006 by William Morrow Paperbacks Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-078987-9, ISBN: 0-06-078987-5
"This novel by a New York Times–bestselling author follows three “bold, courageous, and entertaining” women through the tumult of the French Revolution (Booklist). For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of eighteenth-century France, the lofty ideals of the coming revolution could not seem more abstract. But when Claire sees the gaping disparity between the poverty she has known and the lavish lives of aristocrats as her thea ..."
Made in Detroit(1st Edition) Poems by MargePiercy Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35388-5, ISBN: 0-385-35388-X
"A treasure trove of new poems by one of our most sought-after poets: poems that range from descriptions of the Detroit of her childhood to her current life on Cape Cod, from deep appreciations of the natural world to elegies for lost friends and relationships, from a vision of her Jewish heritage to a hard-hitting take on today’s political ironies.In her trademark style, combining the sublime with the gritty, Marge Piercy describes the ..."
Three Women(1st Edition) by MargePiercy Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-688-17106-3, ISBN: 0-688-17106-0
"The heroine of Marge Piercy's Three Women is something of a feminist trailblazer: the first woman to teach constitutional law at her big-city university. At five feet three inches, however, Suzanne Blume feels "too small for her role in the world." To compensate, this pint-sized divorcee has transformed herself into a human dynamo, obsessively slicing and dicing the time she devotes to her mother, her two daughters, her students, and ..."
Summer People by MargePiercy Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1990 by Fawcett ISBN-13: 978-0-449-21842-6, ISBN: 0-449-21842-2
"Dinah, Willie, and Susan have long outlived the scandal associated with their ten-year-old menage-a-trois. Dinah, an avante-garde compler, treasures her independence. Yet it takes Willie's kindness and Susan's fire to sustain her. Willie is a left-wing sculptor in a right-wing age. And Susan, his wife, is a fabric designer who craves glamour, wealth, and the attentions of the summer people who visit Cape Cod every year. Then one summer, ..."
Summer People(1st Edition) by MargePiercy Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 1989 by Summit Books ISBN-13: 978-0-671-67856-2, ISBN: 0-671-67856-6
"Dinah, Willie, and Susan have long outlived the scandal associated with their ten-year-old menage-a-trois. Dinah, an avante-garde compler, treasures her independence. Yet it takes Willie's kindness and Susan's fire to sustain her. Willie is a left-wing sculptor in a right-wing age. And Susan, his wife, is a fabric designer who craves glamour, wealth, and the attentions of the summer people who visit Cape Cod every year. Then one summer, ..."
Woman on the Edge of Time(Reprint) by MargePiercy Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1985 by Fawcett Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-449-21082-6, ISBN: 0-449-21082-0
"Hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her c ..."
"Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions"
The Third Child(Reprint) A Novel by Professor MargePiercy Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093603-7, ISBN: 0-06-093603-7
Braided Lives(Reprint) by MargePiercy Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2013 by Pm Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60486-442-7, ISBN: 1-60486-442-7
"Jill and Donna are cousins and lifelong best friends but could not be more different. Despite their contrasting characters, fiercely independent, dark, street-smart Jill and pretty, blond, alluring Donna are very close, attending college together in Ann Arbor and then moving to New York City after graduation. Ultimately veering onto different life paths, they both experience love, betrayal, friendship, pain, independence, and fear. Thou ..."
"Evening Street Press is centered on Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1848 revision of the Declaration of Independence: "that all men -- and women -- are created equal," with equal rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It focuses on the realities of experience, personal and historical, from the most gritty to the most dreamlike, including awareness of the personal and social forces that block or develop the possibilities of th ..."
Pesach for the Rest of Us(1st Edition) Making the Passover Seder Your Own by MargePiercy Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Schocken Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-8052-4242-3, ISBN: 0-8052-4242-2
"Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in tweaking each spring to make it more meaningful. In this journey through the ritual, Piercy coaxes us toward “a significant contemporary interpre ..."
Sex Wars(1st Edition) A Novel of the Turbulent Post-Civil War Period by MargePiercy Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2005 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-06-078983-1, ISBN: 0-06-078983-2
"Post-Civil War New York City was the battleground of the American dream: an era of vast fortunes and crushing poverty; a time notorious for free love and the emerging rights of women, yet one that saw the rise of brutal sexual repression and the enforcement of prejudice. Though life was hard, the promise of change was in the air. Women were agitating for civil rights, including the vote. Immigrants were pouring into the city, bringing w ..."
The Third Child by MargePiercy Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Piatkus Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7499-3507-8, ISBN: 0-7499-3507-3
The Third Child(1st Edition) by MargePiercy Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by William Morrow & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-06-621116-9, ISBN: 0-06-621116-6
" The renowned novelist and poet Marge Piercy tells a contemporary love story set in the twin realms of college and national politics In the politically prominent Dickinson family, ambition comes first, and Melissa, the third child, has always felt that she comes last. Going away to college offers her a chance at a life free from her brilliant mother's constant scrutiny and her famous father's lack of interest. There she meets Blake ..."