Woman on the Edge of Time
  • Published: 6 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781529100570
  • Imprint: Del Rey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $26.00

Woman on the Edge of Time

The classic feminist dystopian novel

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6 Aug 2019
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For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, this is a reissue of a much loved feminist classic

'One of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning.' GLORIA STEINEM

'She is a serious writer who deserves the sort of considered attention which, too often, she does not get...' MARGARET ATWOOD
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Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Naomi Alderman's The Power - Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction. Disturbing and forward thinking, Marge Piercy's remarkable novel will speak to a new generation of readers.

Connie Ramos has been unjustly incarcerated in a mental institution with no hope of release. The authorities view her as a danger to herself and to others. Her family has given up on her.

But Connie has a secret - a way to escape the confines of her cell. She can see the future. . .

For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and THE POWER, this is a reissue of a much loved feminist classic.
  • Published: 6 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781529100570
  • Imprint: Del Rey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen novels including the classic Woman on the Edge of Time; nineteen volumes of poetry; four non-fiction books as well as her critically acclaimed memoir. Born in Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan, and the recipient of four honorary doctorates, she has been a key player in many of the major progressive political battles of our time, including the anti-Vietnam war and the women's movement, and more recently an active participant in the resistance to the war in Iraq.

Praised as one of the few American writers who are accomplished poets as well as novelists — Piercy is one of the country's bestselling poets — she is also the master of many genres: historical novels, science fiction (for which she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction in the United Kingdom), novels of social comment and contemporary entertainments. She has taught, lectured, and performed her work at well over 400 universities around the world.

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Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time

Genius...Marge Piercy is every bit as imaginative as H. G. Wells or Isaac Asimov or any of the great fantasists, but she is also a fierce and devoted activist who wants us to be more than passive readers...I urge you to read Marge Piercy now.

Gloria Steinem

Both absorbing and exciting

New York Times Book Review

Here is somebody with the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love for the truth and a need to tell it.

Thomas Pynchon

One of the most important novelists of our time

Erica Jong

Marge Piercy is the political novelist of our time. More: she is the conscience

Marilyn French

Marge Piercy’s characters are complex and very human

Margaret Atwood

Intelligent, thoughtfully constructed…perhaps the most important novel in the Piercy canon

Time Out

a fiercely brilliant writer. . . a novel which is chilling, provocative and...controversial

Jane Howard

Anyone who wants to learn what the revolution against the fat society is all about should read Marge Piercy's novel

Time
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