Many of Piercy's novels explore American society's oppression of the individual. In The High Cost of Living (1978), three characters, like Vida, are ostracized; each yearns for acceptance, an end to a lifetime of alienation. Fugitives appear again in Piercy's most recent The Longings of Women (1994), while Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) juxtaposes the flawed present (of Vida's world) against the Utopian future she imagines.
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