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Lädt ... Three Women (1999)von Marge Piercy
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. As the title suggests, this book revolves around three women. Suzanne is a lawyer and academic whose very neatly organised life that fits around her career. She has two grown up children: Rachel is training to be a rabbi; Elena...well Elena has always been a troublesome child. She gets sacked and has to move back in with Suzanne, disturbing her mother's peaceful home. The reader is soon told that Elena has been involved in a harrible, tragic event when she was growing up. While Suzanne has to adapt to having her child at home agaian, her mother, Beverly, suffers a stroke. Beverly, in her 70s, is a fierce political activist but now is a prisoner in her own body, forced to move in with her daughter while she tries to re-learn the skills she has known since childhood. Through exploring these women's lives and their often fraught relationships, Piercy explores a number of issues including caring for the elderly and the American healthcare system. I think the main point though is her focus on gender relationships; through these three women, plus Rachel and Suzanne's friend Marta, Piercy is asking a series of questions. To what extent a woman should compromise her needs for a man? Do we use relationships to disguise what is wrong in our lives? And at the end of the day, do sexual relationships mean anything? Beverly has great sex over the years but it is still the women in her life, her family, who care for her right to the end. I find Piercy's work a bit hit and miss and Three Women isn't my all-time favourite by her but it was a book that gave me pause for thought. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approved of her choices, has been felled by age and illness. And, for the first time in her life, she needs Suzanne's help.Intertwining the lives of three generations of contemporary women, master storyteller Marge Piercy plunges into the deepest, most elemental basics of life -- love, aging, illness, and death -- and emerges with a brave, compassionate exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Each chapter is told from a different/alternating woman's point of view, with the character identified in a subheading under the chapter number. I am neutral about the effectiveness of this style.
I haven't decided if I'll keep the book: Piercy became my favorite author when I read Woman on the Edge of Time when it first came out, but this novel isn't as imaginative or perception-stretching. ( )