Woman on the Edge of Time

Marge Piercy

Fawcett Crest, 1976 - Fiction - 381 pages

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.... "From the Paperback edition."

Contents

• Section 1: 9
• Section 2: 33
• Section 3: 59

About the author

Poet and novelist Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 31, 1936. She received a B. A. from the University of Michigan and an M. A. from Northwestern. She is involved in the Jewish renewal and political work and was part of the civil rights movement. She won the Arthur C. Clarke award. Besides writing her own novles and collections of poetry, she has collaborated with her husband Ira Wood on a play, The Last White Class, and a novel, Storm Tide. In 1997, they founded a small literary publishing company called the Leapfrog Press. She currently lives in Cape Cod.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Woman on the Edge of Time; Volume 2 of A Fawcett Crest Book; A Fawcett Crest Book, 2-3208-5; Volume 2 of Crest book
• Author: Marge Piercy
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Fawcett Crest, 1976
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jan 20, 2010
• ISBN: 0449232085, 9780449232088
• Length: 381 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General