Sleeping With Cats
A Memoir
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 13, 2009
Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer.
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- Who it’s for
- A candid artist’s memoir where cats offer continuity amid changing relationships, creativity, and age.
- Themes
- Women’s lives and identity, Creativity and writing, Love and relationships
- Genres
- Writers' Lives, Cats, Women's Lives
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Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats. With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class family in Detroit.
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She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, Sleeping With Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself. A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, Sleeping With Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story.
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A candid artist’s memoir where cats offer continuity amid changing relationships, creativity, and age.
Come here for
- A writer’s inward-looking account of womanhood, work, and lasting love
- Cats as a quiet constant through a changing life
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- Searing honesty about childhood, marriages, aging, and creative life
Where it sits
| Women's Lives | 47% |
|---|---|
| Cats | 46% |
| Writers' Lives | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Biography & Memoir
- Writers' Lives
- Cats
- Cat Breeds
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- Authors
- Marge Piercy
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 13, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Women’s lives and identity · Creativity and writing · Love and relationships
- Reading lane
- Biography & Memoir