Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before.
Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow.
Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time

This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make. Gloria Steinem
An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society. The Philadelphia Inquirer
A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling. Publishers Weekly

Connie Ramos s world is cuttingly real. Newsweek

Absorbing and exciting. The New York Times Book Review

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Marge Piercy is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including The Art of Blessing the Day; Early Grrrl; Mars and Her Children, My Mother's Body; Available Light; Stone, Paper, Knife; The Moon Is Always Female; and her selected poems, Circles on the Water. Her book of craft essays, Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt, is part of the Poets on Poetry series of the University of Michigan Press, and she edited a poetry anthology, Early Ripening. In 1990 her poetry won the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She has written fourteen novels, including He, She and It (winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award), The Longings of Women and City of Darkness, City of Light. The novel Storm Tide, co-authored with her husband, Ira Wood, was published in June 1998. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into sixteen languages. She and her husband live on Cape Cod.

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ISBN 13	9780704338371
ISBN 10	0704338378
Title	Woman on the Edge of Time
Author	Marge Piercy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Women's Press Ltd
Year published	1979-05-01
Number of pages	384
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