- Jewish women, Cyborgs, Man-woman relationships, Fiction
In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Marge Piercy
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 447
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Knopf, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781473529724
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