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by: Marge Piercy
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780449208502
ISBN: 0449208508
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: February 12, 1985
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date: February 12, 1985
Sales Rank: 1208888
Studio: Fawcett
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'This epic story is fueled with intense commitment and sensuousness.'
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Vida was their star--the beautiful, charismatic radical from the pages of LIFE magazine--the symbol of the passionate rebellion of the sixties. Now, ten years later, the shouting is over, but Vida is still on the run. Staying in Network hideouts, traveling disguised, fearing every glance, she finds her best protection is her distrust of everyone--a lesson learned from past treacheries. And now, knowing the dangers, she finds herself warming again toward a man, an outcast ten years younger than herself.
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Rating: - A tutorial on radical underground operational security
Ever wonder how those people live, those who choose the radical path in our society? Marge Piercy tells you -- I can think of few better novels that show how those long-ago radicals moved around and communicated, back in the day. A couple of Gerald Seymour's books come close. I strongly recommend this novel highly to anyone studying today's radical fringe, be it al-Qaeda or the Euro-rads. Those people don't pull off major actions very often, because so much of their time and energy is devoted ... Read More
Rating: - La Vida Loca
Well, the title character isn't crazy, but the pun was too good to pass up. Vida's life, however, is crazy since she's been on the run for "crimes" committed under the cover of radical activism in the 1960s.
I was moved by how well-imagined the title character and this book are. One does not consider the things that one would have to do or endure to be underground, even here. Vida can't go to a doctor when she needs one, even for mundane things, because she doesn't have health insurance ... Read More
Rating: - Great reading, the real story, nice for the heart
This is a book I feel ashamed I havent reread in a couple years. Its going into my brief case tommorrow morning to be read furtively at work at lunch, to be devoured again as I have devoured it over and over sinc eI first bought it. I bought this book on a day 21 years ago when I had been turned down for a part time temporary clerical job at a college, a college I now teach at. I didnt know who Marge Piercy was, in fact, I didnt know that if I had called twio or three of my closest friends and comrades ... Read More
Rating: - Great reading, the real story, nice for the heart
This is a book I feel ashamed I havent reread in a couple years. Its going into my brief case tommorrow morning to be read furtively at work at lunch, to be devoured again as I have devoured it over and over sinc eI first bought it. I bought this book on a day 21 years ago when I had been turned down for a part time temporary clerical job at a college, a college I now teach at. I didnt know who Marge Piercy was, in fact, I didnt know that if I had called twio or three of my closest friends and comrades ... Read More
Rating: - Vida. . . a woman on the run. . .
I just finished Piercy's novel, and I'm really impressed. There are some literary characters who are unforgettable, who have been canonized into world literature as those rare characters who could just as well be "real" people, living among us, as they are people on pages. Holden Cauffield, Madame Bovary, Humbert Humbert, Mrs. Dalloway, Don Juan, Emma, Old Goriot, Raskolnikov. . . the list goes on and on. I think that Vida deserves a place among their literary legions. She is an extremely compelling character, ... Read More
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