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November 20, 2007
Marge Piercy, '57
Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York, Harper Perennial, 2006.
The book: Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In an era of free love, emerging rights of women and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures. This story re-creates a turbulent period in American history and explores changing attitudes in a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise and reward.
The author: Marge Piercy is the author of 16 previous books of poetry as well as 17 novels and a memoir, titled "Sleeping with Cats." Her work has been translated into 16 languages, and she has won many honors. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist and publisher of Leapfrog Press.
Web site: http://www.margepiercy.com/
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 02:15 PM