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Vida
by Piercy, Marge
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1604864877
- ISBN 13
- 9781604864878
- Seller
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Walla Walla, Washington, United States
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About This Item
PM Press, 2011-12-12. Paperback. New. Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy?s classic bookend to the Sixties. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the '60s she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement?a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of Life magazine?charismatic, passionate, and totally sure she would prevail. Now, a decade later, Vida is on the run, her star-quality replaced by stubborn courage. She comes briefly to rest in a safe house on Cape Cod. To her surprise and annoyance, she finds another person in the house, a fugitive, Joel, ten years younger than she, a kid who dropped into the underground out of the army. As they spend the next days together, Vida finds herself warming toward a man for the first time in years, knowing all too well the dangers. As counterpoint to the underground '70s, Marge Piercy tells the extraordinary tale of the optimistic '60s, the thousands of people who were members of SAW (Students Against the War) and of the handful who formed a fierce group called the Little Red Wagon. Piercy?s characters make vivid and comprehensible the desperation, the courage, and the blind rage of a time when "action" could appear to some to be a more rational choice than the vote. A new introduction by Marge Piercy situates the book, and the author, in the times from which they emerged.
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- Bookseller
- Earthlight Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1006189
- Title
- Vida
- Author
- Piercy, Marge
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 1604864877
- ISBN 13
- 9781604864878
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Place of Publication
- Oakland
- Date Published
- 2011-12-12
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Walla Walla, Washington
About Earthlight Books
We are a family owned and operated full-service bookstore with a storefront located in Walla Walla, Washington and our online warehouse located in Olympia, Washington. Since 1973 we have been filling the literary needs of this wonderful community in the Walla Walla Valley. Over the past 48 years our shop here has become a staple of this vibrant local economy, a beautiful downtown scene and an informed intelligentsia. We sell books through our storefront, our website, and a book-mobile that travels to festivals and fairs.
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