Small Changes

Marge Piercy

Fawcett Crest, 1973 - Domestic fiction - 542 pages

"Marge Piercy is a raw, tough, willfull, magnificent novelist."
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Set against the early days of the modern feminist movement, SMALL CHANGES tells the story of sensual Miriam Berg, who trades her doctorate for marriage and security, but still hungers for a life of her ow,n and shy, frightened Beth who is running from the life Miriam seeks and into a new world of different ideas and a different kind of love.....

Contents

• Womens Soft Voices on a Summer: 85
• You Aint Pretty So You Might as Well Be Smart: 92
• Is Sex More Fun Than Pinochle?: 111

About the author

Poet and novelist Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 31, 1936. She received a B. A. from the University of Michigan and an M. A. from Northwestern. She is involved in the Jewish renewal and political work and was part of the civil rights movement. She won the Arthur C. Clarke award. Besides writing her own novels and collections of poetry, she has collaborated with her husband Ira Wood on a play, The Last White Class, and a novel, Storm Tide. In 1997, they founded a small literary publishing company called the Leapfrog Press. She currently lives in Cape Cod.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Small Changes; A Fawcett Crest book; Ballantine Books
• Author: Marge Piercy
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Fawcett Crest, 1973
• ISBN: 0449210839, 9780449210833
• Length: 542 pages