Three Women [Import] [Paperback]

Marge Piercy (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Piatkus (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749931817
• ISBN-13: 978-0749931810
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Terms of Endearment! A family saga to cherish!, September 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Three Women (Hardcover)

I'm always amazed at Marge Piercy's ability to enter characters of so many different nationalities, periods of history, even time/space dimensions. I can't think of a contemporary American novelist whose range is so vast and quality so consistent. But Three Women, set in the here-and-now, and dealing with issues that are so domestically and frighteningly real, hit home with me in a very personal way. In Piercy's typical style, she had me turning pages until dawn and sneaking peaks at work. The attorney, Suzanne, who finally has her house to herself -- and a hot sexual relationship to boot! - has to grapple honestly, painfully and at times quite hilariously with a troubled daughter who moves back home and a very strong mother, Beverly, independent all her life and suddenly now, at seventy-something forced back into Suzanne's care. Piercy is not a sentimental writer (bless her heart) and these are not weepy TV types whose sugary relationships melt into icing, but fiercely real women with amazing life experiences, agile minds and strong desires. Something like Larry McMurty's Terms of Endearment, this is a novel I'll share with my mother and daughter...and demand they give it back!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Novel, Awful Cover!, January 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Three Women (Mass Market Paperback)

Poor Marge Piercy, her novels are so serious, and so political, and yet they are so often saddled with the most ridiculous cover art! Piercy has no equal in weaving multiple characters and plot lines into an intellectual page-turner. She's been doing it for thirty years. The central plot of this novel, although there are many side plots, concerns mom/grandma/daughter all living together after grandma has a stroke and daughter loses her job. It's quite a page-turner as we discover a mystery from the daughter's past, a relationship unfolding for the mother, and the difficulties encountered by the grandmother.

My only complaint with the book was that the portrait of the attorney's work did not ring true to me as an attorney, and I found the anecdotes of the grandmother's career as a union organizer to be rather cliched. (This character has been beaten up by Union bosses AND has been firebombed by the Klan AND....okay, we get the point, Marge.) However, this is still a first class read.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a typically wonderful Marge Piercy book, November 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Three Women (Hardcover)

an absolutely wonderful story - touching and emotional and nothing less than I expected from Marge Piercy. Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down! Everyone should read it!