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by: Marge Piercy
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060789879
ISBN: 0060789875
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: December 01, 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Sales Rank: 111646
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Product Description:
Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this 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: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; and Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, whose censorship laws are still on the books.
In the tradition of her bestselling World War II epic Gone to Soldiers, Marge Piercy once again re-creates a turbulent period in American history and explores changing attitudes in a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise, and reward.
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Rating:  - Another gem from Marge Piercy
My husband and I often read the same books, and it was particularly enjoyable to share this one together. We don't agree with the previous reviews. We loved the ways that Piercy wove together historical information with the characters lives. We were both so inspired by Victoria Woodhull that we got her biography from the library and combed through that as well. I have always liked the ways that Piercy shifts time frames and social contexts, helping the reader to imagine him or herself in the shoes ... Read More
Rating: - Quasi-Fictitious, Real Life Characters
Utterly fascinating. An exceptional book.
Weaves truth with fiction, making for a very informative, highly readable historical account of those years (in New York) right after the Civil War, and into Reconstruction (although Reconstruction is not discussed an any great length here, the well-read individual who pursues her/his interest in the Civil War and its aftermath may find some points of comparison and contrast when comparing the Reconstruction years in New York City with those in ... Read More
Rating: - Terrific Read
Most exciting historical novel I've read in ages, set in an unusual time, just after the Civil War. It follows several very different people, including the leading "first wave" feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Victoria Woodhull, along with the puritannical moral campaigner Anthony Comstock, and a struggling recent Jewish immigrant and her family. I could hardly put the book down as it ranged from one group of characters to another, and I found it just delicious. Other reviewers ... Read More
Rating: - Great Read -Women Lives in Post-Civil War Times
I really enjoyed reading Sex Wars. Many of the characters were real people (especially women) fighting to live out their goals and dreams in the 1870's and 1880's. When I finished the book I had to immediately look up the real life stories of Victoria Woodhull (notorious free love speaker, stockbroker and medium), Anthony Comstock (fighter of profanity who goes too far), Susan Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Vanderbilt. The fictional character of Freydah was great too. She really made me imagine ... Read More
Rating:  - was ok
not what i expected as far as the story goes, but in excellent condition
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