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Name: Vida

Author: Marge Piercy
Year: 1979
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Genres/categories: Feminism

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9780671401108
9789993986096
0671401106
9993986097
Originally published in 1979, this piece of revolutionary fiction is a bestselling author'??s classic paean to the 1960s. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch, who has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 1960s 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. As counterpoint to the underground 1970s, Marge Piercy tells the extraordinary tale of the optimistic era, the thousands of people who were members of 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.
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