by Marge Piercy
“Nine to five?” Leslie asked her, to make her keep talking.
“Yes, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Saturday morning. He’s given me the job for the summer.… I have to make money for school, if I want to go away.… It won’t be bad, he has a crush on me.”
“Okay, then. I’ll leave you. I’m late for work.” And George, always George, the lord who’d given her a job, her powerful protector and friend. Her owner. What did he offer her besides security, a well-paying job eventually, work she wanted to do? That’s what it came down to. She was not ready to give him up. She wanted what he had too badly. She had to stop wanting that, and she could not stop. Not yet. She wanted to live in Tasha’s world only in her spare time. She got on her lovable small secondhand Honda, that ate up her extra pennies and made her feel good, and headed for George.
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 © 1978 by Marge Piercy
Lyrics from song “Red Wine at Noon” (T. Brown) are from the album Joy of Cooking, published by Bear Brown Publishing Company, ASCAP.
Cover design by Andy Ross
ISBN: 978-1-5040-3341-1
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