After his dreams of playing baseball in the Majors fall short and his marriage ends, David Greene returns to his small hometown on Cape Cod. There ...
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Oct 14, 2008
Sarah
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This book was lyrical and haunting, but very perplexing, morally. Given Piercy's committment and demonstrated sympathies for working class women, it was strange to see her make an antoganist who embodied the qualities that most conform to stereotypes of working class women- unintelligent, unintellectual, obsessed with "getting a man" and having babies, rapidly sexual, garish in taste, sloppy, buxom to tbe point of being fleshy and fat, obsessed with family, mentally unstable, etc- an
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Mar 11, 2010
Zinta
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I’ve read many Marge Piercy books, novels and poetry (and, in general, lean more toward the latter), and reread several as I prepared to do an interview with the author for the spring 2010 issue of The Smoking Poet.Piercy collaborated with her husband, writer Ira Wood. I was most intrigued as I settled in for a good Sunday read. Would I be able to distinguish the two? Would their styles mesh or would the seams show?
The novel opens with a chapter called, "David." It is writ More...
The novel opens with a chapter called, "David." It is writ More...
Jan 25, 2010
Jenny
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I love Marge Piercy. And now I like her husband too, since they wrote this together. Interesting spin on the political thriller, in that the thrilling politics are those of a small New England town. Great sense of landscape and place, feminist issues, lust, sex, betrayal and death. How could you go wrong?
Sep 08, 2009
Deb
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I slogged through the first 50 pages or so of this book before I finally gave up. I'm not sure if it was my mood, or the book itself, that prompted absolutely no interest whatsoever. "Too many books, too little time" to waste the time on a book that's just not worth it, IMO.
Jul 30, 2011
Mary
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Marge Piercy is always easy to read for me, and the characters do stay in my head for a while afterwards. That said, in some novels her female protagonists have similar qualities. But she is still one of my favorite authors.
Apr 04, 2009
William
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I liked it. Since it was co-written by a husband and wife I was curious about who was writing what. In the afterword they address that.
Oct 02, 2011
Monica
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Reading this again for a lack of any other compelling books at the moment. I've needed to be absorbed in a novel.
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