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

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Piercy, Marge

Golden Books Publishing Company, Incorporated

Random House Publishing Group

Random House, Incorporated

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Fawcett Crest

Vintage Books

Place of publication not identified, 2010

Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 1976

United States, United States of America

Women's Press classic, New York, ©1976

Reprint, 2010

S.I, 2010

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Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercys landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futuresand 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. #160; 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 dignityand 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. #160; Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time #160; 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 Piercys 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 #160; An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society. The Philadelphia Inquirer #160; A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling. Publishers Weekly #160; Connie Ramoss world is cuttingly real. Newsweek #160; Absorbing and exciting. The New York Times Book Review

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today....
Hispanic American Women,People With Mental Disabilities,Psychological Fiction,Social Science,New York (N.Y.),Fiction,Literary,Sagas,Psychological,Ethnic Studies,Hispanic American Studies,General,Contemporary Women,Time Travel,History

Connie Ramos, a Chicana woman in her mid-thirties, living in New York and labeled insane, committed to a mental institution, is able to communicate with the year 2137

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