Marge Piercy

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more... Lire la suite

Dans Une femme au bord du temps, Consuelo Ramos faussement accusée d'avoir abusé de sa fille et confinée dans un établissement psychiatrique, rentre en contact avec (ou hallucine l'existence) d'un émissaire d'une future utopie appelée Mattapoisett,... Lire la suite

Originally published in 1970, readers follow the lives of four teenagers in a near-future society, as they rebel against the military draft and 'the system'. From the disillusionment and alienation of the young at the centre of the revolt, to their... Lire la suite

Shira Shipman wirft ihren Job bei einem Großkonzern hin und kehrt nach ihrer Scheidung endlich heim in die freie Stadt Tikva. Ihre Großmutter Malkah arbeitet dort an einem neuen Projekt mit, das Shira zunächst suspekt ist: Malkah und der alte Dr.... Lire la suite

"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."—Alice Hoffman In 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... Lire la suite

Marge Piercy's debut collection of short stories offers glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy's novels, the collection spans decades of her... Lire la suite

When their neighborhood is marked for urban renewal, four tenacious city dwellers band together in the face of a wealthy and powerful institution
A local university plans to bulldoze and replace parts of a predominantly African American Chicago... Lire la suite

Two unforgettable women see their lives change in unimaginable ways in this captivating novel spanning the explosion of feminism in the 1960s Growing up, Beth always dreamed of her wedding day. But a few months into her marriage to Jim, whose... Lire la suite

An "extraordinary" novel of the intertwined lives of three troubled women, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Gone to Soldiers ( San Francisco Chronicle).
When her best friend's death rattles her sense of complacency, college professor... Lire la suite

Passions flare in a most unlikely love triangle between three remarkable characters facing arduous life challenges in this engrossing novel by bestselling author Marge Piercy Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Leslie, a... Lire la suite

For three Cape Cod residents, the influx of summer visitors is no more than a minor nuisance—until it brings a man who threatens the balance of their delicate relationship For more than a decade, Dinah, Susan, and Susan's husband, Willie—artists and... Lire la suite

This sweeping New York Times bestseller is "the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War II" ( Los Angeles Times).
Epic in scope, Marge Piercy's sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people... Lire la suite

Donna sul filo del tempo è la storia di Connie Ramos, una donna chicana ingiustamente rinchiusa in un ospedale psichiatrico, e del suo incontro con Luciente, una strana figura androgina apparentemente venuta dall'anno 2137. Attraverso il contatto... Lire la suite

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with... Lire la suite

Hailed as a classic of speculative 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... Lire la suite

Wie aus der schicken jungen Pariserin Jacqueline eine harte Résistance-Kämpferin wird, was ein Fehler Matrosen der Handelsmarine kosten kann, warum eine erfolgreiche Romanzenautorin als Kriegsberichterstatterin an die Front geht, wie ein Student im... Lire la suite

Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more... Lire la suite

Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her... Lire la suite

Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, Melissa is the third child in the politically prominent Dickenson family, where ambition comes first and Melissa often comes last. In college, she meets Blake,... Lire la suite