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by: Marge Piercy
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780449206911
ISBN: 0449206912
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: March 12, 1985
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date: March 12, 1985
Sales Rank: 1584670
Studio: Fawcett
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Product Description:
Successful Boston cookbook author Daria Walker, whose greatest pleasures are her home and family -- and who loves her husband deeply -- is devastated to learn he wants a divorce. Now she must put her life back together. But as she strives to understand the life she is losing, Daria must face the shocking truth behind the smooth facade of her prominent attorney-husband, Ross -- and recreate her own values, her own sense of family, and herself.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Woman coming of age after marriage
The primary character, Daria, has been married for 20+ years and slowly comes to realize how unaware she has been of who she is and begins to question her view of her reality as that reality breaks apart.
A great book for currently divorcing or recently divorced women. Hard to put down, and wonderful characters throughout. I especially enjoyed Piercy's characterization of Daria's new beau and the relationship and intimacy they develop together, consciously avoiding the mistakes they ... Read More
Rating:  - Amazingly accurate
I read this book as a selection for the book club I belong to. I found it to be a very accurate story about a divorce where deception is involved. It is also accurate about the wife's difficulty in seeing her husband as he is rather than as she believed him to be. As a divorced woman I could relate to many aspects of the story. So much so that the beginning was very hard to read. Even though the real estate story line seems far fetched, it is entirely believable to me. Truth is stranger than ... Read More
Rating:  - Been there, done that
This book was probably better than I give it credit for, but I've just read too many books lately about good-for-nothing men leaving their wives- wives who are (incredibly) still in love with the scumbags, but who then in the end finally become their own person and realize they are better off without those losers (duh!)-although to give credit where credit is due, this book was written before most of the others. Remember in Open House, where the first guy to show up after the split then turns out ... Read More
Rating: - My Favorite Piercy Book
This is Ms. Piercy's best book--I've read it more than once, and wish she would write a sequel to it. Daria Walker is a character I relate to--a woman who learns to live on her own, and has a better life because of it.
Rating: - One woman's journey to find herself
As a man, my review of this book may be somewhat biased, but on the whole, I have to say that this is the best book I've read in a long time about any individual's personal quest to discover who he or she is.
Daria Walker is a cookbook writer who enjoys some small fame in the Boston area, and (this is important to the story) who also comes from a working-class background. Her husband, Ross, can be best described as the scum of the earth - he married Daria simply because he saw her as an ornament to ... Read More
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