The Third Child

Marge Piercy

Original title: The third child

earliest edition we have, 2004 Harper Perennial, 2004 paperback 352 pages

Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, Melissa is the third child in the politically prominent Dickenson family, where ambition comes first and Melissa often comes last. In college, she meets Blake, a man of mixed race and apparently unknown parentage. His adoptive parents are lawyers whose defense of death-row cases in the past brought them head-to-head with Melissa...

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The Third Child ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061557293
The Third Child paperback · 2004 · Harper Perennial · 352 pages · 9780060936037
The third child edition · 2003 · William Morrow · 342 pages

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