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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing book.  Follows a myriad of characters through World War II.  Americans, French citizens, Jews and Gentiles.  Citizens, prisoners, and soldiers.  Lots of points of view to consider.  700 pages long and more than worth the read.  I will truly miss some of these characters.  I wish Marge Piercy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21236733">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book ruined me for all Marge Piercy novels to come because none have matched it in my opinion as a sheer tour-de-force of World War 2 as seen through various eyes.  The strength shown by the characters was amazing and there were parts that really tore me apart.  a definite re-read in the future...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18590087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[World War II was the leitmotif of my childhood, bracketed by my memories of Pearl Harbor  Day ( “Go outside and play, children.  We’re listening to the radio.”) and VJ Day, when a parade of cars jammed Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna.  The photo of a dead American Marine half-buried in the san...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18838770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was beyond good.  It was fantastic.  There are so many characters, but they are all so well-developed.  The plot, and the many sub-plots, were intricate, with no mistakes.<br/><br/>I've read this three times, and I recommend it frequently.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written, complex book, taking place in the United States and Europe during World War II. The story follows many inter-related characters and story lines about different people as they try to survive during the war. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting account of a handful of different people and to what extent they become involved in WWII. It made me think of my Grandpa fighting in the South Pacific...and my Grandma in Ohio wondering if he was alive...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I sometimes find Marge Piercy's books difficult to get into, but this novel of World War II, told through the stories of a number of young people in the U.S. and Europe, is very readable and engaging. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book I have ever read.  This is a must for anyone who enjoys historial fiction.  I have friends who don't like History, but loved it as well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is a masterpiece of the craft of writing.  This is my all time favorite novel.  I won't give anything away--just go read it!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It took Piercy 7 years to write this magnificient fictional account of humanity during the second world war, and her research shows. She says in the after-words &quot;This is a novel conceived in the imagination, but I wanted nothing to happen in it that had not happened somwethere in the time and p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28195368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Marge Piercy's work interests me, and this book proved a fine read. She does some interesting things to subvert the norms of war novels--over half of the intertwined, episodic chapters have female protagonists, often women who outshine their male counterparts, even with respect to war acts. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27200035">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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