In the sixties she was a symbol of passionate rebellion. Now Vida is forced to live as a fugitive. Years spent fleeing the FBI and travelling in disguise, and the experience of bitter sexual and political rivalries, threaten to splinter her commitment.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Marge Piercy is one of my favourite authors and Vida was as interesting and as cogent as the other books of hers I have read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great reading, the real story, nice for the heart
12 Jun 2003
By Tony Thomas
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Format:Hardcover
This is a book I feel ashamed I havent reread in a couple years. Its going into my brief case tommorrow morning to be read furtively at work at lunch, to be devoured again as I have devoured it over and over sinc eI first bought it. I bought this book on a day 21 years ago when I had been turned down for a part time temporary clerical job at a college, a college I now teach at. I didnt know who Marge Piercy was, in fact, I didnt know that if I had called twio or three of my closest friends and comrades they would have told me how I had shared spaces and struggles with Marge, I didnt know I would read in this book about places I had been, or find it modeled after people I had known.
I was broke, unemployed with no unemployment, and looked at two books, the other I forget. Vida was cheaper pennies per page.
Boy am I lucky. Marge's books have kept me going for years, long before I met her, or learned the good things she's done.
This is the innards of what happened in the 1960s, to be sure to people whose politics I don't share, people who in SDS, people who didnt look to the future of the mass struggles but tried individual acts they thought would stimulate the struggle, and then found themselves on the run for decades. However, the human stories, why people resist, why people fight, why people survive, and also how people love both romantically and as comrades in solidarity is shown with candor, realism, and humor.
This book is also a page turner.
Get this book now while its available at reduced prices for used or remaindered books, pennies for page as I did. When young people, working people, women who want freedom, people who want to stop billionaire sponsored wars rise again and fight, this book will be republished, cherished, understood anew. That time is not going to be long.
I am glad I have my Vida to read. Hope you can get 21 years out of uyour copy!
I was broke, unemployed with no unemployment, and looked at two books, the other I forget. Vida was cheaper pennies per page.
Boy am I lucky. Marge's books have kept me going for years, long before I met her, or learned the good things she's done.
This is the innards of what happened in the 1960s, to be sure to people whose politics I don't share, people who in SDS, people who didnt look to the future of the mass struggles but tried individual acts they thought would stimulate the struggle, and then found themselves on the run for decades. However, the human stories, why people resist, why people fight, why people survive, and also how people love both romantically and as comrades in solidarity is shown with candor, realism, and humor.
This book is also a page turner.
Get this book now while its available at reduced prices for used or remaindered books, pennies for page as I did. When young people, working people, women who want freedom, people who want to stop billionaire sponsored wars rise again and fight, this book will be republished, cherished, understood anew. That time is not going to be long.
I am glad I have my Vida to read. Hope you can get 21 years out of uyour copy!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A tutorial on radical underground operational security
7 Dec 2007
By Ralph M. Hitchens
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Ever wonder how those people live, those who choose the radical path in our society? Marge Piercy tells you -- I can think of few better novels that show how those long-ago radicals moved around and communicated, back in the day. A couple of Gerald Seymour's books come close. I strongly recommend this novel highly to anyone studying today's radical fringe, be it al-Qaeda or the Euro-rads. Those people don't pull off major actions very often, because so much of their time and energy is devoted to keeping themselves and their associates secure.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favorite books of all time.
25 May 2013
By Karen Spivak
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Format:Paperback
I first read this book when I was a teenager back in the 80's. It helped give me a lasting interest and understanding of the 60's a decade which I am still faciinated with. The characters are just so real. How they look think and feel is so real. I feel as if I know them and would like some and dislike some. I know I would like and learn from Vida and her sister Natalie. I love how Piercy writes sex scenes. They are so real and not all beautiful and perfect.. Now I am an RN mom of two and I just reread the book. Sorry to say I ignored my family for almost a whole day. Marge piercy you are an incredible writer. Could there ever be a Vida sequel?
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