Marge Piercy

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1973
  • Latest Book:
    April 2014
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Small Changes

    Two unforgettable women see their lives change in unimaginable ways in this captivating novel spanning the explosion of feminism in the 1960s   Growing up, Beth always dreamed of her wedding day. But a few months into her marriage to Jim, whose ...

  • Woman on the Edge of Time

    Once a college girl, now a pickpocket. Once a loving mother, now a "child abuser." Once beautiful, now worn and discarded. Connie Ramos. A heroically sane woman, now labeled insane. Held against her will in a mental hospital, Connie is just anothe...

  • Vida

    Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy’s classic bookend to the ’60s. 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. ...

  • Braided Lives

    Marge Piercy carries her portrait of the American experience back into the Fifties -- that closed, repressive time in which forces for the upheavals of the Sixties ticked away underground. Spanning twenty years, and teeming with vivid characters, Bra...

  • Going Down Fast

    When their neighborhood is marked for urban renewal, four tenacious city dwellers band together in the face of a wealthy and powerful institution A local university plans to bulldoze and replace parts of a predominantly African American Chicago slum ...

  • Dance the Eagle to Sleep

    Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy’s second novel follows the lives of four teenagers, in a near-future society, as they rebel against a military draft and “the system.” The occupation of Franklin High School begins, and with it, the op...

  • Fly Away Home

    Daria Walker is disturbed by her husband's strange and mysterious behavior and discovers some terrifying facts about the family finances and his involvement in arson and murder, after he asks for a divorce...

  • Available Light

    Pierce's most compelling book of poems expresses the delights of the senses and the hard play of emotion. They celebrate the wonders of nature and explore the nature of love and friendship.


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  • Gone to Soldiers

    This sweeping New York Times bestseller is “the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War II” (Los Angeles Times). Epic in scope, Marge Piercy’s sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people an...



  • High Cost of Living

    Passions flare in a most unlikely love triangle between three remarkable characters facing arduous life challenges in this engrossing novel by bestselling author Marge Piercy   Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Lesli...

  • Summer People

    For three Cape Cod residents, the influx of summer visitors is no more than a minor nuisance -- until it brings a man who threatens the balance of their delicate relationship   For more than a decade, Dinah, Susan, and Susan’s husband, Willie ...

  • He, She And It

    "A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down." -- Alice HoffmanIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken fr...

  • The Longings of Women

    Her marriage over, her life unraveling, writer Leila Landsman turns to work and finds herself drawn to the sensational story of Becky Burgess, a young woman accused of killing her husband with the help of her teenage lover. Becky thought she'd escape...

  • City of Darkness, City of Light

    This novel by a New York Times"bestselling author follows three “bold, courageous, and entertaining” women through the tumult of the French Revolution (Booklist). For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of eighteenth-century France,...

  • Storm Tide

    A washed-up minor league pitcher gets more than he bargained for when his affair with an older woman draws him into a tangled web of deceit and scandal   When Cape Cod high school star pitcher David Greene left home, everyone in his small beach ...

  • Three Women

    There is a place where your worst fears meet fresh opportunities...and new chances to know love. Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college,...

  • The Third Child

    Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, Melissa is the third child in the politically prominent Dickenson family, where ambition comes first and Melissa often comes last. In college, she meets Blake, ...

  • Sex Wars

    Post"Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America...

  • The Cost of Lunch, Etc.

    Marge Piercy’s debut collection of short stories, The Cost of Lunch, Etc., brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marge Piercy has published 19 books.

Marge Piercy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Cost of Lunch, Etc., was published in April 2014.

The first book by Marge Piercy, Small Changes, was published in August 1973.

No. Marge Piercy does not write books in series.
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