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 of Piercy's novels, the collection spans decades of her writing along with a range of locations, ages, and emotional states of her protagonists. From the first-person account of hoarding ("Saving Mother from Herself") to a girl's narrative of sexual and spiritual discovery ("Going over Jordan") to a recount of a past love affair ("The Easy Arrangement") each story is a tangible, vivid snapshot in a varied and subtly curated gallery of work. Whether grappling with death, familial relationships, friendship, sex, illness, or religion, Piercy's writing is as passionate, lucid, insightful, and thoughtfully alive as ever.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 04/01/2014
ISBN: 9781604864960
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/19/2014
Booklist 07/01/2014 pg. 26