Three Women - Couverture souple

Piercy, Marge

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749932007 ISBN 13 : 9780749932008

Editeur : Piatkus Books, 2000

Synopsis

Suzanne Blume has survived two marriages, financially supported two children through college and her teaching duties at a Boston university allow her just enough time to take on important legal cases and spend time with her closest friend. Life in her forties has also yielded some unexpected pleasures - she is enjoying her first sexual relationship in years. But her neat, buttoned-up life starts to unravel when her daughter Elena returns home, angry and unemployed. Can mother and daughter rebuild their fragmented relationship? And what of Suzanne's own mother? Having devoted her life to men and politics with passion, fiercely independent Beverly is now coping with the effects of a stroke and is also forced to share Suzanne's home and rely on the conventional daughter she has never had much time for . . . Marge Piercy, the critically acclaimed author of Woman on the Edge of Time, Braided Lives and Body of Glass, weaves one of her most compelling novels yet. Three Women is told from the viewpoint of three generations of one unforgettable family as they learn to accept love, life and one another.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approved of her choices, has been felled by age and illness. And, for the first time in her life, she needs Suzanne's help.

Intertwining the lives of three generations of contemporary women, master storyteller Marge Piercy plunges into the deepest, most elemental basics of life -- love, aging, illness, and death -- and emerges with a brave, compassionate exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Marge Piercy is the author of the memoir Sleeping with Cats and fifteen novels, including Three Women and Woman on the Edge of Time, as well as sixteen books of poetry, including Colors Passing Through Us, The Art of Blessing the Day, and Circles on the Water. She lives on Cape Cod, with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist and publisher of Leapfrog Press.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Piatkus Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0749932007
• ISBN 13: 9780749932008
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320