- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060937025
- ISBN-13: 978-0060937027
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,725,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
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Suzanne Blume has bought up, two children and is enjoying her first sexual relationship in 10 years. Then her daughter Elena has returns angry and unemployed, and her own mother is having to cope with age and illness. This book tells their story as they learn to accept love, life and each other.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Marge Piercy’s latest novel explores the complex and unconventional lives of one American family’s grandmother, mother and daughter. Although outwardly happy living their separate lives, each feels incomplete inside. Then, a serious health challenge to the eldest forces them all to re-examine the relative importance of their professional, personal and family relations. In the end, blood tells and the three generations come together with a deeper understanding of just what is most important in life. This deeply satisfying book entertains, shocks and challenges our understanding of love, life and family responsibilities. Highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Marge Piercy's latest novel explores the complex and unconventional lives of one American family's grandmother, mother and daughter. Although outwardly happy living their separate lives, each feels incomplete inside. Then, a serious health challenge to the eldest forces them all to re-examine the relative importance of their professional, personal and family relations... This deeply satisfying book entertains, shocks and challenges our understanding of love, life and family responsibilities. Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A very satisfying book and one of Marge Piercy's most commercial. It is a very contemporary story of a successful woman lawyer of 49 whose life becomes the a conflict between her own needs for independence and those of her mother, struggling to recover from a stroke and also her two daughters who are both tryihg to find their way in life. The dilemma of how a woman lives her life in today's society is beautifully delineated. Highly recommended.
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One of her best!
When I read this book I was experiencing a similar situation and felt that it could have been written about me! Read more
Published on 24 July 2000
Luminous prose and boundless compassion from one of the best
This is really the story of one woman, Suzanne Bloom, a middle-aged lawyer, whose well-ordered life starts to fall apart when her sick mother and disgruntled daughter descend upon... Read more
Published on 27 May 2000 by S. B. Kelly
You won't find a more aborbing, intelligent read than this!
Marge Piercy has once again produced an utterly absorbing novel, full of truly believable, three dimensional characters. Read more
Published on 20 April 2000
If you like Margaret Atwood - you'll love this book!
I love Marge Piercy's novels. For me she's up there with Margaret Atwood in terms of quality even if she rather less well known in England than Atwood. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2000
Compulsive reading despite not quite credible characters
I felt this was an unusual book for Marge Piercy but I really relished it! The structure of the book draws you in (it is written in turn from the viewpoint of the three generations... Read more
Published on 29 Feb 2000
a moving and intelligent book
I had never read Marge Piercy before. A friend recommended her to me and now I want to red all her novels. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2000
Good but not up to her usual standard
In the book Piercy does what she does best, write about women and their lives. The story revolves around three generations of one family and looks at relationships within families. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 1999 by valeriec@indigo.ie
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