Woman on the Edge of Time

Woman on the Edge of Time
TitleWoman on the Edge of Time
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1976
AuthorPiercy, Marge
Number of Pages432
PublisherBallantine Books
CityNew York
Publication LanguageEnglish
ISBN or ASIN Number044900094X
KeywordsCulture, Exploitation, Mental health, Mexican-American
URLhttps://www.amazon.com/Woman-Edge-Time-Marge-Piercy/dp/044900094X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481143738&sr=1-1&keywords=Woman+on+the+edge+of+time
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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.