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The Longings of Women Paperback | Pages: 448 pages
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Title:The Longings of Women
Author:Marge Piercy
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 448 pages
Published:May 1st 1995 by Fawcett (first published 1994)
Categories:Fiction. Novels. Womens. Feminism. Contemporary

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Her marriage over, her life unraveling, writer Leila Landsman turns to work and finds herself drawn to the sensational story of Becky Burgess, a young woman accused of killing her husband with the help of her teenage lover. Becky thought she'd escaped the grim poverty of her childhood when she married up, but her husband was soon planning to trade her in for a newer model. And that's just what happened to Mary Burke, whose middle-class life ended with her divorce. Now Leila's housecleaner, Mary has a secret: she is homeless.

They are three very different women who share the same longings: to be seen for who they are, to be valued and loved, but most of all, to have a physical and emotional home that can't be taken away....

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Original Title: The Longings of Women
ISBN: 0449223493 (ISBN13: 9780449223499)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Boston, Massachusetts(United States)

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My friend Karan recommended this book to me years ago when I only had time to ready over summer. This book is hauntingly good! I still this of the story line today, many years later. I highly recommend this book and author!

A book I read years ago and decided to read it again. Strangely I didn't remember a thing about it, while I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time round. Re-reading 'Gone to Soldiers now'.

As usual, the extraordinarily talented Piercy has created memorable, living characters. A homeless woman, once an educated housewife displaced by divorce, a professor and wife of a narcissistic theater director, a young woman who clawed her way out of poverty in New Bedford's working class Portuguese community and was clawing still to create her Cosmo Magazine illustrated life. All lose what they've built, face lethal challenges and somehow intertwined, come out where they didn't think they'd be

A book I read years ago and decided to read it again. Strangely I didn't remember a thing about it, while I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time round. Re-reading 'Gone to Soldiers now'.

Just came upon this and it drew me in for a re-read.. with a vague reminiscence..Then, 20 pages in, it's clear: This is the one! This is the book with the depiction of the woman who is homeless, but who copes with it for years, working as a cleaning women, keeping her homelessness secret. Never getting foodstamps even, never getting housing assistance, her kids don't care much, her ex-husband really doesn't care, no human contact; wear lipstick always, many other daily rules to 'pass' for normal

Read at the recommendation of my sister in law, Lorrie. I am ashamed to say that I did not know about Marge Piercy and her reputation as a feminist writer. I liked this story three different women whose lives intersect. It was the story of the middle-aged homeless woman that gripped me the most. One woman was patterned after Pamela Smart, the New Hampshire woman accused and convicted of convincing her young lover to kill her husband. I had hoped Piercys fictional account would add more to the

I was first made aware of Marge Piercys work when I saw her novel Woman on the Edge of Time listed as one the great feminist classics in a newspaper article a few years ago. At the time I was reading a great deal of science fiction, mostly by women. Id worked my way through Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guins work and was looking for more of the same. I was so blown away by Woman on the Edge of Time that I decided to start hunting out more of Marge Piercy work. So far Ive read Vida, Sex Wars and