Woman on the Edge of Time
by:
Marge Piercy (author)
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...
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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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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 376
Edition language: English
It gets really good around page 200. It's more of a thinkpiece than an action piece, and once I accepted that, I enjoyed it. The depressing parts felt sadly modern.
It gets really good around page 200. It's more of a thinkpiece than an action piece, and once I accepted that, I enjoyed it. The depressing parts felt sadly modern.
There were times when I was so frustrated with the main character. She was driving me crazy. She was walking through an entirely different world and assuming everything was the same. I realized why this was bothering me - I was wanting and expecting her to react more like a science fiction reader. (...
Couldn't finish. The story was just all over the place and I felt like checking myself into an asylum from the craziness.
I was first introduced to the novels and poetry of Marge Piercy when I was in college and very focused on the writings of women, especially feminist writings. In going through a bunch of books I had been keeping at my parents' house, I discovered boxes of books I probably haven't read in over ten ye...
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