Woman on the Edge of Time (A Women's Press Classic) - Softcover

Marge Piercy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704346567 ISBN 13: 9780704346567

Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

First published in 1979, Marge Piercy's novel is both a drama of survival and a Utopian epic. Connie Ramos, 37, Mexican-American and unfairly incarcerated in a mental hospital, is the enduring central character in a book about differing visions of the future.

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Review:

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"
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Connie Ramos s world is cuttingly real. " Newsweek"
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Absorbing and exciting. "The New York Times Book Review""

"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

-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 Publisher:

A timeless classic!
Ask any woman born pre-1970 to name the books which she found life altering and you can bet that Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy appears among them. Woman on the Edge of Time is the moving story of Connie Ramos, a thirty-seven-year-old Mexican-American, unfairly incarcerated in a mental hospital, whose survival instinct is greatly tested. On a larger scale it is a Utopian epic that makes you question the system that institutionalises her. Although originally published in 1975, this Women’s Press classic has endured the test of time and is greatly relevant to the 21st century reader interested in the idea of the position of women in the world.

Erica Jong ‘One of the most important novelists of our time.’

Thomas Pynchon ‘Here is somebody with the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk far more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love of the truth and a need to tell it.’

Time ‘Anyone who wants to learn what the revolution against the fat society is all about should read Marge Piercy’s novel.’

New Internationalist ‘Marge Piercy succeeds brilliantly in pitting the imagined idealism of the future against the poisoned and despoiled present – each illuminating the other- and the book stands as one of the classic feminist utopias, alongside Ursula LeGuin’s Dispossessed and Always Coming Home and Joanna Russ’s The Female Man. In Connie and Luciente we have two wonderfully rounded characters, fallible, often wrong-headed but brave, full of spirit and immensely life affirming.’

About this edition

• Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0704346567
• ISBN 13: 9780704346567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384