Piercy even compares Woman on the Edge of Time and another one of her utopian novels He, She, and It when discussing the themes and inspirations behind Woman on the Edge of Time. Piercy describes the novel as, "if only.". One of Piercy's main inspirations for her utopian novels is Plato's Republic. Piercy draws on several inspirations to write this novel such as utopian studies, technoscience, socialization, and female fantasies. The novel was originally published by Alfred A. It is considered a classic of utopian "speculative" science fiction as well as a feminist classic. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Woman on the Edge of Time is a 1976 novel by American writer Marge Piercy. “Absorbing and exciting.” - The New York Times Book Review
“Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.” -Newsweek marvelous and compelling.” - Publishers Weekly “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer
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 “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. 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. 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. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity-and now they want to take her sanity. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before.Ĭonnie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. 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.
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