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by: Marge Piercy
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780449000915
ISBN: 0449000915
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: June 23, 1997
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: June 23, 1997
Sales Rank: 1133585
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Product Description:
Growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, and going to college when the first seeds of sexual freedom are being sown, Jill and Donna are coming of age in an exciting, turbulent time. Wry, independent Jill thrives in the new free-spirited world, while her beautiful cousin Donna desperately searches for a man to make her life whole. As each cousin is driven by different demons and desires, they eventually realize that they cannot overcome fundamental differences in each others' lives. Still, as their futures assume contrary paths, Jill and Donna realize that they may be separated, but they'll never be truly divided from one another.
'Rings with passionate awareness...honest and impressive.'
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
From the Paperback edition.
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Rating:  - One of the books of my life!
Marge Piercy's writings are about human values. She's not an alienated, too sophisticated, befuddled, philosophically complex writer who writes to communicate angst and befuddlement at the world. Marge Piercy's writings are about human values and how those values came through to move people forward starting in the struggles of women, of Blacks, of young people against the war in the 1960s.
This is a book that I read every year or so since I first got it about 20 years ago. ... Read More
Rating: - Womens' fiction on a new level...
It is very easy to group all women writers into one category, especially in the UK where it seems that every woman is a twenty-something writer of tales of lost boyfriends and work stress. Marge Piercy is a world class above these writers, depite the dodgy publiscist she has who gives all her novels terrible covers! This book is an enticing tale of women surviving in a society that does not hand them anything. It's a sobering tale for those of us who feel we have a relatively firm grasp on our lives/careers ... Read More
Rating: - My favourite book - ever
Like one of the other reviewers, I have reread this book at least once a year since it was first published in the UK in 1984. Unbelievably, it is no longer in print there. Marge Piercy has created the most believable fictional world I have ever read - in part I suspect because Braided Lives is fairly autobiographical - and her memoir "Sleeping with Cats" confirms this (also a great read). I learn something new every time I read the book. Jill, the main character, is rounded, complex, politically ... Read More
Rating:  - Tedious, sterotypical and one sided
This novel has a great title. But, some of the intertwined characters that were fleshed out were absolutely cruel and unlikeable, others so unidimensional, that I didn't really want to know more about them, and didn't care as much as I should what happened to them. Donna and Peter deserved each other. What was there to like about Mike? I, too, was reminded of Margaret Atwood's style when reading this, but she's not one of my favorites either. To be fair, perhaps to really appreciate this book you had to have read ... Read More
Rating: - Passionate, Vivid, Absorbing
This book is one of my top 3 favorites, along with two novels by Margaret Atwood (and what writer wouldn't want to be grouped with Atwood?) I was a sophomore in high school the first time I read Braided Lives and have read it perhaps 5 or 6 times in the ensuing 15 years. Although the prose seems at times a little overblown, this book throbs with emotion, and with each read-through I experience new depths to the story of Jill and her friend Donna. This novel went a long way toward developing my own political sensibilities, ... Read More
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