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  • Woman on the Edge of Time

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  • Written by: Marge Piercy
  • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
  • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Woman on the Edge of Time

Written by: Marge Piercy
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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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.

©1976 Marge Piercy (P)2016 Tantor
Psychological Women's Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction
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"Absorbing and exciting." ( New York Times)

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Fundamental & Fabulous. Such a gift to experience!

A book I re-read often. It began my sci-fi obsession! Showed me possibilities for life! Well-performed. Thank-you!

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Incredible novel

This is an important novel that integrates a not-so-distant science fiction utopia with critical feminist issues that are as relevant today as the day Piercy wrote the book. Piercy is brilliant and the performance is well done. I highly recommend.

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