Gone to Soldiers (131 page)

Finally I thank my husband Ira Wood. Perhaps nobody should ever have to read an 1100-page manuscript six times in all its drafts, but he did, and was unfailingly clear-sighted and penetrating. He also gave up his own work for a month to help me with the research abroad, which was sometimes fun and sometimes drudgery and occasionally quite unpleasant. This is one more adventure we have shared. Finally I thank Colette, Dinah, Jim Beam and Oboe for taking turns sitting on the computer and making it work, and for going along to dreary motels and lonesome cities to earn their kibble.

About the Author

Marge Piercy (b. 1936) is the author of nineteen poetry collections, including
The Hunger Moon
and
Made in Detroit
, and seventeen novels, including the
New York Times
bestseller
Gone to Soldiers
and
He, She and It
, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. She has also written a memoir,
Sleeping with Cats
; a collection of short stories,
The Cost of Lunch, Etc.
; and five nonfiction books. A champion of feminism, antiwar, and ecological movements, Piercy often includes political themes in her work and features strong female characters who challenge traditional gender roles. Her book of poetry
The Moon Is Always Female
is considered a seminal feminist text. Piercy's other works include
Woman on the Edge of Time
,
The Longings of Women
, and
City of Darkness, City of Light
. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, radio personality and author Ira Wood, with whom she cowrote the novel
Storm Tide
.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1987 by Middlemarsh, Inc.

“Of Chilblains and Rotten Rutabagas” was previously published in
Lilith
12–13, Winter-Spring 1985/5745, pp. 9–12. “Naomi/Nadine Is Only Half” was previously published in
Forum
, a Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 12, 3/4, Spring/Summer 1986, pp. 1, 10, 11, 19.

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