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by: Marge Piercy
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780060936044
ISBN: 0060936045
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: January 01, 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: December 24, 2002
Sales Rank: 330452
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats.
With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, Sleeping With Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself.
A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, Sleeping With Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story.
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Rating: - Marge Piercy, `Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir'
While not as well-known as the American feminist `names' of the 60's, author, poet and activist Marge Piercy has an assured place in their company. I was a late-comer to discovery of her extraordinary work (who could fail to be converted by `Woman on the Edge of Time'?) but have been spell-bound ever since. Personal and political are seamlessly melded in Piercy's diverse oeuvre, and the ease with which she explores interpersonal dynamics is as striking as her interrogations of the many guises of ... Read More
Rating:  - Her emotional life
In the first chapter, Marge Piercy writes, "This memoir focuses on my emotional life, not on my literary or political adventures, or most of my friendships." Consider this when you read it, because this memoir isn't a simple retelling of events. It is written from the heart.
The writing is honest and lyrical. As Piercy escorts the reader through the sometimes rough 'n' tumble decades of her life, groundbass to it all is her relationships with cats. Anyone can appreciate this, but those ... Read More
Rating:  - Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir
I began reading this book with a delicious sense of anticipation. Ms. Piercy's writing is, as usual, beautifully crafted, almost lyrical. Her use of the cats in her life was, for me, a tantalizing hook. But unfortunately, no matter how much I wanted to care enough about her life to pick up the book after once putting it down, there was nothing in it, for me, to make that happen. I found the book to be nothing more than a not very interesting, self-indulgent trip down memory lane.
Rating: - Not what I expected
This book was NOT what I expected. If you're wanting a book about CATS and ONLY cats, this is NOT the book for you...but if you're like me and fell inlove with the title and love cats, and are willing to give this book a chance--you WON'T REGRET IT.
It is a GREAT book, all about the life of the author and growing up Jewish and everything else that comes with being a little girl who does love cats...but can't seem to hang on to them...thanks to dear ole dad.
I hated to see ... Read More
Rating:  - A lot of Marge and not so much cats
I was hoping this would be more about cats since I am researching writing a cat book, but instead it was a great deal about the author Marge Piercy, her entire life, in fact. Since I was unfamiliar with her work, reading her life story in such detail was of little interest to me, although I found parts of it -- the struggle to find time to write and balance a marriage at the same time -- interesting. But her chapters on her cats, especially when they were sick or dying, moved me greatly. I ended the ... Read More
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