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Title:City of Darkness, City of Light
Author:Marge Piercy
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 479 pages
Published:August 12th 1997 by Ballantine Books (first published 1996)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. France. European History. French Revolution

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In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts.

Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory: if men can make things happen, perhaps women can too. . . . Manon Philipon finds she has a talent for politics--albeit as the ghostwriter of her husband's speeches. . . . And Pauline Léon knows one thing for certain: the women must apply the pressure or their male colleagues will let them starve. While illuminating the lives of Robespierre, Danton, and Condorcet, Piercy also opens to us the minds and hearts of women who change their world, live their ideals--and are prepared to die for them.

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Original Title: City of Darkness, City of Light
ISBN: 0449912752 (ISBN13: 9780449912751)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Madame Roland, Camille Desmoulins, Georges-Jaques Danton, Pauline Leon, Claire Lacombe
Setting: Paris,1793(France)

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Through the lives from childhood of major players, Marge takes you through the process of the French Revolution. By making this into a personal experience, she helps give insight on how we got from the Storming of the Bastille to the Terror seemingly unavoidably. The exalting role of the women and their subsequent disappointment is such an experience that we have all felt all too recently: maybe, finally, this time.

Spoiler alert: 4 of six main characters were beheaded. Interesting exposition on the French Revolution. In anyone other than Piercys hands it would have been pedantic and dry. It was a tough read for me, still, because the short chapters toggled back and forth between the six main characters and introduced such a slew of other historical figures that Piercy had to create an elaborate index in the back to keep track of it all. I think Gwendolyn Brooks would have done a better job, because Marge

I found this a real page-turner, although with 595 pages you do need a bit of space in which to delve into it. I was travelling (ten hours by ferry) so I was able to indulge myself. Not that the subject matter is easy - the French Revolution - but being a coward at heart I have always admired people who are willing to give up family, home, safety and comfort for an ideal. This book takes you through a fictionalised account of six real-life people whose influence and actions formed and shaped the

While the novel certainly gave me a far greater understanding of the French Revolution, it was stylistically boring, with overuse of short, simple sentences and unending detail of the political machinations of competing groups.

3.5 stars.

This book means business and its worth every minute it takes to get through it. I ❤ Marge Piercy.