Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel

Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercyâ€™s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futuresâ€”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.
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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 dignityâ€”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.
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Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time
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â€œThis 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 Piercyâ€™s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.â€â€”Gloria Steinem
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â€œAn ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.â€â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer
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â€œA stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.â€â€”Publishers Weekly
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â€œConnie Ramosâ€™s world is cuttingly real.â€â€”Newsweek
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â€œAbsorbing and exciting.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780449000946
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1997-06-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780449000946

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780449000946
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1997-06-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780449000946

Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel

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