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A review by pattydsf
The Longings of Women by Marge Piercy
3.0
It has been years since I read a novel by Marge Piercy and I am still trying to decide if ending the unintentional drought was a good thing or not. I really like Piercy's poems and often read the poems in the anthologies I own. I just hadn't made time for her novels for awhile and I had enjoyed the ones I had read earlier, especially Gone to Soldiers.
Longings of Women is set in Boston, in a world that I imagine is much like Piercy's own life. The main character is a woman very involved in academics and good causes. Her life has been careening along on the same path for many years, but a number of things happen in this novel to take her off track.
I like the way Piercy uses different narrators and time periods to move her narrative forward. I like a couple of the characters - a lot. My biggest problem is that this book seemed very much like other books I had read by Piercy. I guess I believe that Piercy has political reasons for her books and those reasons have not changed. That is likely much more my problem than Piercy's.
Longings of Women is set in Boston, in a world that I imagine is much like Piercy's own life. The main character is a woman very involved in academics and good causes. Her life has been careening along on the same path for many years, but a number of things happen in this novel to take her off track.
I like the way Piercy uses different narrators and time periods to move her narrative forward. I like a couple of the characters - a lot. My biggest problem is that this book seemed very much like other books I had read by Piercy. I guess I believe that Piercy has political reasons for her books and those reasons have not changed. That is likely much more my problem than Piercy's.