Reviews

""Dance the Eagle to Sleep" is a cautionary tale, but it is more than that. It is an important political document. I hope the book is read."" --The Nation"

""Dance the Eagle to Sleep" is a frightening book, which will reassure only those who can take solace from the fact that it is cast as a futuristic novel. This is no real solace, since Marge Piercy has used the future only as a parabolic mirror of the recent past: her novel is indirectly about the Movement, more specifically about the rise, fragmentation, and fall of the Students for a Democratic Society." " --The New Republic"

"A vision, not an argument . . . it is brilliant. . . . What a frightening, marvelous book." "--New York Times"

"Bears a strong family resemblance, in kind and quality, to William Golding's" Lord of the Flies" and to Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange." It would be no surprise to see it become, like these others, a totem and legend of the young."" --Time"

"It's so good I don't even know how to write a coherent blurb. It tore me apart. It's one of the first really honest books this country has ever produced. In lesser hands it would've been just another propaganda pamphlet, but in Marge Piercy's it's an all-out honest-to-God novel, humanity and love hollering from every sentence and the best set of characters since . . . Moby Dick or something." "--"Thomas Pynchon