Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy

Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy

The New York Times bestselling novel of humans in conflict with inhuman events, Gone to Soldiers is a landmark piece of literary prose.the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War I (Los Angeles Times).

In this sweeping epic (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of World War I, Marge Piercy moves from the United States to Europe, from the North African campaign to New Zealand, from Japan to Palestine, brilliantly recreating the atmosphere of the wartime capitals: the sexual abandon, the luxury and deprivation, the terror and excitement.

Gone to Soldiers interweaves the stories of ten remarkable characters: The New York divorcee and writer of romances-turned-war correspondent. her ex-husband, involved in intelligence for the OS. Daniel Balaban, whose mission is to crack the Japanese codes. Bernice Coates, who escapes life to fly fighters as a Woman's Airforce Service Pilot. a painter who parachutes into Nazi-occupied France to fight with the Resistance. Zachary Barrington Taylor, for whom war is the most exciting game. Jacqueline Levy-Monot, who leads Jewish children over the Pyrenees to safety. her sister, Naomi, a troubled adolescent. their cousin, Ruthie Siegal, a touching young woman who tries to keep alive her love for her boyfriend, while working on an assembly line in Detroit. These characters wage memorable and passionate public and private battles, as war casts them into their ultimate dreams and nightmares, daring them to act out their brightest and darkest fantasies.

Written with unmatched authority about the cataclysmic events and passions of war, Gone to Soldiers is a literary triumph for Marge Piercy and a landmark volume in the literature of war (USA TODAY).

Marge Piercy is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including The Art of Blessing the Day; Early Grrrl; Mars and Her Children, My Mother's Body; Available Light; Stone, Paper, Knife; The Moon Is Always Female; and her selected poems, Circles on the Water. Her book of craft essays, Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt, is part of the Poets on Poetry series of the University of Michigan Press, and she edited a poetry anthology, Early Ripening. In 1990 her poetry won the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She has written fourteen novels, including He, She and It (winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award), The Longings of Women and City of Darkness, City of Light. The novel Storm Tide, co-authored with her husband, Ira Wood, was published in June 1998. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into sixteen languages. She and her husband live on Cape Cod.

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ISBN 13	9780449215579
ISBN 10	0449215571
Title	Gone to Soldiers
Author	Marge Piercy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1988-04-12
Number of pages	800
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