WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME
Marge Piercy
'One of the most important novelists of our time'
Erica Jong
Marge Piercy's bestselling novel is both a gripping drama of survival and a Utopian epic. The story of Connie Ramos - 37, Mexican-American, labelled inadequate, unfairly incarcerated in a mental hospital - becomes the turning point for a book about war, a vision of an idyllic future and a moving narrative of essential human dignity. Emotionally compelling, politically searing, this is a landmark novel by a writer of dazzling abilities.
Marge Piercy
is a novelist and poet whose work has been translated into sixteen languages. Among her novels are: The High Cost of Living; Vida; Gone to Soldiers; The Longings of Women; and Body of Glass (Winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for best science fiction published in the UK). Her most recently published poetry in the UK includes The Art of Blessing the Day and Written in Bone. She lives in Wellfleet on Cape Cod.