The longings of women / Marge Piercy

By:

Piercy, Marge [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Fawcett Crest, 1995Edition: First mass market editionDescription: 433 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0449223493

Subject(s):

Women -- Fiction

DDC classification:

813.54

Summary: "Her marriage over, her life unraveling, writer Leila Landsman turns to work and finds herself drawn to the sensational story of Becky Burgess, a young woman accused of killing her husband with the help of her teenage lover. Becky thought she'd escaped the grim poverty of her childhood when she married up, but her husband was soon planning to trade her in for a newer model. And that's just what happened to Mary Burke, whose middle-class life ended with her divorce. Now Leila's housecleaner, Mary has a secret: she is homeless. They are three very different women who share the same longings: to be seen for who they are, to be valued and loved, but most of all, to have a physical and emotional home that can't be taken away ..."--Cover

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Project 8 Branch Reference Section	Women’s Collection	WC 813.54 P618l 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132607d

"Her marriage over, her life unraveling, writer Leila Landsman turns to work and finds herself drawn to the sensational story of Becky Burgess, a young woman accused of killing her husband with the help of her teenage lover. Becky thought she'd escaped the grim poverty of her childhood when she married up, but her husband was soon planning to trade her in for a newer model. And that's just what happened to Mary Burke, whose middle-class life ended with her divorce. Now Leila's housecleaner, Mary has a secret: she is homeless. They are three very different women who share the same longings: to be seen for who they are, to be valued and loved, but most of all, to have a physical and emotional home that can't be taken away ..."--Cover

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