Piercy embodies this contradiction in the stunning flesh and spirit of her title character, Vida Asch. In the 1960s American antiwar movement (the setting of half of Vida), feminist issues were considered second-tier, even by many of the women within the movement. Times called Marge Piercy’s Vida the “ Golden Notebook of the ’80s,” both a record of and reflection on the state of feminism at a historical turning point. When it was first released in 1979, the L.A. Praise for the new edition from Bitch Magazine, June 2012: As they spend the next days together, Vida finds herself warming toward a man for the first time in years, knowing all too well the dangers. To her surprise and annoyance, she finds another person in the house, a fugitive, Joel, ten years younger than she, a kid who dropped into the underground out of the army. She comes briefly to rest in a safe house on Cape Cod. Now, a decade later, Vida is on the run, her star-quality replaced by stubborn courage. Back in the ’60s 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. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. VIDA is the most important novel yet written about the political ’60s and ’70s it is at the same time a sensual and moving love story.
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