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    Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir

    By Marge Piercy

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    Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats.

    With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, Sleeping With Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself.

    A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, Sleeping With Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061865558
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    Marge Piercy

    Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen novels, including the national bestsellers Gone to Soldiers, Braided Lives, and Woman on the Edge of Time, seventeen volumes of poetry, and a critically acclaimed memoir, Sleeping with Cats. Born in center-city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan, the recipient of four honorary doctorates, she has been a key player in many of the major progressive political battles of our time.

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    • 5/5
      really great piece about a very interesting woman - enjoyed a lot!
    • 4/5
      Piercy's characterization of her cats is wonderful! Her life experiences are so different from my own, and she tells her history with the acknowledgement of memory's fallibility and an interesting admittance of her own faults. I wish she had talked more about her works of poetry and fiction and how they fit into her life.
    • 3/5
      Hell of a life! I cried when cats died. Amazing experiences.
    • 4/5
      Piercy has crafted a well written memoir that is political, feminine, literary, but most importantly human and universally touching, with her feline companions at the center of it all. A brilliant recollection by a gifted writer.