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Vida : a novel

Originally published in 1979, this piece of revolutionary fiction is a bestselling author?s classic paean to the 1960s. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch, who has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 1960s she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement?a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of *Life* magazine?charismatic, passionate, and totally sure she would prevail. Now, a decade later, Vida is on the run, her star-quality replaced by stubborn courage. As counterpoint to the underground 1970s, Marge Piercy tells the extraordinary tale of the optimistic era, the thousands of people who were members of Students Against the War, and of the handful who formed a fierce group called the Little Red Wagon. Piercy?s characters make vivid and comprehensible the desperation, the courage, and the blind rage of a time when action could appear to some to be a more rational choice than the vote.

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  • "Originally published in 1979, this piece of revolutionary fiction is a bestselling author?s classic paean to the 1960s. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch, who has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 1960s she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement?a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of *Life* magazine?charismatic, passionate, and totally sure she would prevail. Now, a decade later, Vida is on the run, her star-quality replaced by stubborn courage. As counterpoint to the underground 1970s, Marge Piercy tells the extraordinary tale of the optimistic era, the thousands of people who were members of Students Against the War, and of the handful who formed a fierce group called the Little Red Wagon. Piercy?s characters make vivid and comprehensible the desperation, the courage, and the blind rage of a time when action could appear to some to be a more rational choice than the vote."@en
  • "Back in the 1960s Vida Asch was a darling of the exuberant antiwar movement--charismatic, passionate, and totally sure she would prevail. Now, a decade later, Vida is on the run, her star-quality replaced by stubborn courage."@en
  • "Vida was their star--the beautiful, charismatic radical from the pages of LIFE magazine--the symbol of the passionate rebellion of the sixties. Now, she is an unrepentent fugitive ten years later, the shouting is over, but Vida is still on the run. Staying in Network hideouts, traveling disguised, fearing every glance, she finds her best protection is her distrust of everyone--a lesson learned from past treacheries. And now, knowing the dangers, she finds herself warming again toward a man, an outcast ten years younger than herself. --Los Angeles Times Book Review."
  • "Een groep jonge activisten in Amerika komt in het geweer tegen het establishment, het oorlogsgeweld en het onrecht in de wereld."
  • "Un gros récit (1979) qui possède tous les attraits du best-seller avec en prime une écriture poétique et évocatrice que la traduction n'a pas trahie. La société américaine des années 1960-1970 entrevue à deux niveaux: trépidante aventure remplie de suspense et de mouvement; fond historique, social et politique objectivement observé et rendu par le biais de la fiction vraisemblable. Quelques longueurs, cependant."

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