Woman on the Edge of Time [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Piercy, Marge

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0449210820 ISBN 13: 9780449210826

Casa editrice: Fawcett Books, 1985

Riassunto

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today....

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Recensione:

“This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. 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
 
“An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek
 
“Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review
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L'autore:

Marge Piercy has written seventeen novels including the New York Times bestsellerGone to Soldiers, the national bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women, and the classicWoman on the Edge of Time, as well as He, She and It and Sex Wars; nineteen volumes of poetry includingThe Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980–2010, The Crooked Inheritance, andMade in Detroit; and the critically acclaimed memoir Sleeping with Cats. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern, and the recipient of four honorary doctorates, Piercy is active in antiwar, feminist, and environmental causes.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Fawcett Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0449210820
• ISBN 13: 9780449210826
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384