The Longings of Women
A Novel
The troubled lives of three remarkably different women collide in this absorbing national-bestselling novel of love, betrayal, and self-discovery When her best friend's death rattles her sense of complacency, college professor Leila Landsman decides she's finally had enough of her cheating husband. Leila throws herself into her work and encounters Becky Burgess, a local woman who climbed her way out of poverty but whose success is completely halted when she becomes the prime suspect in her husband's murder. Meanwhile, Leila's housekeeper, Mary Burke, is no stranger to failed marriage. Abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, and unable…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5040-3335-0
- EAN: 9781504033350
- Produktnummer: 19655681
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 433 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Marge Piercy (b. 1936) is the author of nineteen poetry collections, including The Hunger Moon and Made in Detroit, and seventeen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers and He, She and It, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. She has also written a memoir, Sleeping with Cats; a collection of short stories, The Cost of Lunch, Etc.; and five nonfiction books. A champion of feminism, antiwar, and ecological movements, Piercy often includes political themes in her work and features strong female characters who challenge traditional gender roles. Her book of poetry The Moon Is Always Female is considered a seminal feminist text. Piercy’s other works include Woman on the Edge of Time, The Longings of Women, and City of Darkness, City of Light. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, radio personality and author Ira Wood, with whom she cowrote the novel Storm Tide.
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