Vida

by Marge Piercy

Book, 1979

Publication

Fawcett (1985)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Publisher's Summary: ...At the centre of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the '60s she was a political star of the exuberant anti-war 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. She comes briefly to rest in a safe house on Cape Cod. 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. 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...

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