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Breaking Out
Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy (1936– ) was born in Detroit, USA, into a family that had been, like many others, affected by the Depression. Her father, out of work for some time, got a job installing and repairing heavy machinery at Westinghouse. When Piercy was a young child, they moved into a small house in a working-class neighbourhood in Detroit. At seventeen, Piercy went to study at the University of Michigan, and she has participated vigorously in many progressive movements, such as civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, feminism, and recently, the resistance to the Iraq war. She is the author of seventeen novels including Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), Gone to Soldiers (1987) and The Longings of Women (1994) as well as seventeen ...
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