Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
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Woman on the Edge of Time
A Novel

Author: Marge Piercy

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 14 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/06/2016

Synopsis

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.

About Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy has written seventeen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers; the National bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women; nineteen volumes of poetry, including The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems 1980-2010, The Crooked Inheritance, and Made in Detroit; and a critically acclaimed memoir, Sleeping with Cats. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern, the recipient of four honorary doctorates, she is active in antiwar, feminist, and environmental causes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Max on August 12, 2013

It’s interesting how the lens of three decades of life experience can sharpen the focus of certain stories—and even parts of stories. When I first read Woman on the Edge of Time not long after it was published (1976), I was barely into my 20s and already a reliable cog in the corporate machine. At t......more

Goodreads review by Isis on June 27, 2012

Hands down one of my all time favorite books - I'm certain some of that has to do with the point in my life during which I read it, however it shall always remain an ultimate favorite. The issues the Ms Piercy so deftly addresses are both the main focus of the story and completely secondary, almost......more

Goodreads review by Megan on May 19, 2014

There were times when I was so frustrated with the main character. She was driving me crazy. She was walking through an entirely different world and assuming everything was the same. I realized why this was bothering me - I was wanting and expecting her to react more like a science fiction reader. (......more

Goodreads review by Kara on March 04, 2010

I'm ambivalent about this book. The best way to describe my reservation with Woman on the Edge of Time is that I was never comfortable suspending my disbelief. I tried to make myself willing to go where Marge Piercy was taking me but never quite got there. Although the book steadily improved from it......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 25, 2010

The most important thing to know about this book is that it was first published in 1976. This is such a late 1960s-early-mid 1970s story! It’s funny because part of it takes place in the mid 70s and part takes place in the 22nd century. The 22nd century appears as though imagined in the 1970s. So, t......more

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