Written by Marge Piercy - Audio book narrated by Lee Meriweather, Leigh Taylor Young &Elisa Pensler - Abridged Nonfiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (March 1994)

Marge Piercy's insightful vision into the lives and spirits of American women give birth to characters whom every reader will recognize from personal experience. Hailed by the LOS ANGELES TIMES as "one of our boldest, most prolific authors," Piercy reveals THE LONGINGS OF WOMEN through three characters, seemingly very different, but drawn together by events and by the hollowness left by hopes and desires unrealized.

Leila Landsman, long resigned to the infidelities of her theater-director husband, discovers that his newest lover is the one who may finally destroy their marriage. Her own revelations are magnified by her research for a book about the life of Becky Burgess, a young woman accused with her 17-year-old lover of murdering her husband. Mary Burke, her circumstances sadly reduced by mid-life divorce, cleans affluent Boston homes by day and then is homeless herself by night.

All three women have lost the comfortable identities that made their lives possible. Now, with unexpectedly powerful influence on one another, they must begin to forge new ones.

About the Narrators: Lee Meriweather — Actress Lee Meriweather is best remembered for her role on the long-running television series, Barnaby Jones.

Leigh Taylor Young — Leigh Taylor Young currently stars in the Emmy Award-winning CBS television series, Picket Fences.

Elisa Pensler — Elisa Pensler has been featured in films such as Naked Gun 33 1/3 and Last Action Hero.