{"product_id":"woman-on-the-edge-of-time-paperback","title":"Woman on the Edge of Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarge Piercy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed 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, \u003ci\u003eWoman on the Edge of Time \u003c\/i\u003espeaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWoman on the Edge of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewill remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.\"\u003cb\u003e--Gloria Steinem \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Connie Ramos's world is cuttingly real.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Absorbing and exciting.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eConnie 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.... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarge Piercy\u003c\/b\u003e has written seventeen novels including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGone to Soldiers, \u003c\/i\u003ethe national bestsellers \u003ci\u003eBraided Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Longings of Women, \u003c\/i\u003e and the classic \u003ci\u003eWoman on the Edge of Time, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eHe, She and It\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSex Wars;\u003c\/i\u003e nineteen volumes of poetry including \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010, The Crooked Inheritance, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMade in Detroit;\u003c\/i\u003e and the critically acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eSleeping with Cats\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern, and the recipient of four honorary doctorates, Piercy is active in antiwar, feminist, and environmental causes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.02 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 23, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107642831149,"sku":"9780449000946","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/enJrc2JBNFFwMXpmS0VGZUVGbS9XUT09.webp?v=1780447825","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/woman-on-the-edge-of-time-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}