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The Longings of Women : a Novel by Marge Piercy is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Longings of Women : a Novel about?
With The Longings of Women, Marge Piercy gives us her most involving, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming novel yet. Through her three unforgettable female characters - women whom we recognize in ourselves, our friends, and our chance acquaintances - Piercy reveals a deep, often secret, part of a woman's life: the need for a place in the world that cannot be lost to the vagaries of relationships, work, or the economy. Leila Landsman has long known that her theater-director husband has affairs with young actresses he casts. But it takes the death of her best and oldest friend for Leila to confront how little is left of her marriage. Adrift with this new knowledge, she decides to investigate a subject that, as an academic expert on abused women, she might consider too sensational: the notorious case of Becky Burgess and her teenage lover, who are accused of murdering her husband. Becky Burgess grew up longing to escape the overcrowded, shabby house where her fisherman father and gentle mother raised seven children in undisguised poverty. She studies the women she sees on television: the way they speak, dress, act. She knows she's every bit as smart and pretty as they are. On
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Marge Piercy
- Publisher
- Fawcett Columbine
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780449909072
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.81 / 5 (14 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14