Marge Piercy

Una mujer chicana, Connie Ramos, ha sido encarcelada injustamente en una institución mental de Nueva York. Las autoridades la consideran un peligro para sí misma y para los demás, e incluso su familia ha dejado de apoyarla. Pero Connie tiene una forma de escapar de los confines de su celda: ella puede ver el futuro. Esta novela es una transformadora vision de dos futuros... Por un lado, un tiempo de equidad racial y sexual, de dignidad medioambiental, donde todo el mundo participa por sorteo en el gobierno y la educacion es comunitaria. Por otro, Connie tambien es testigo de otra posibilidad con un resultado muy distinto y distopico. Tan desgarradora como profetica, esta novela de referencia se dirige hoy a una nueva generacion para la que estas opciones pesan mas que nunca.

Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids 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 Piercys remarkable novel will speak to a new generation of readers.After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony.But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, this is a reissue of a much loved feminist classic.'She is a serious writer who deserves the sort of considered attention which, too often, she does not get... MARGARET ATWOOD. NOTA: El libro no esta en español, sino en ingles

Hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction, Marge Piercys landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time will speak to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before.After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony.But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...The classic feminist science fiction novel reissued on its 40th anniversary with a new introduction by the author. Harrowing and prescient and often compared to The Handmaids Tale Woman on the Edge of Time will speak to a new generation of readers.

First published in 1979, Marge Piercy's novel is both a drama of survival and a Utopian epic. Connie Ramos, 37, Mexican-American and unfairly incarcerated in a mental hospital, is the enduring central character in a book about differing visions of the future.

She is a serious writer who deserves the sort of considered attention which, too often, she does not get... MARGARET ATWOODIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipmans marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions - and the ability to kill...From the critically acclaimed author of Woman on the Edge of Time, comes another stunning novel of morality and courage. A Pygmallion tale for the modern age, this classic feminist speculative novel won theArthur C Clark Award.

"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."Alice HoffmanIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipmans marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotionsand the ability to kill. . . .From the imagination of Marge Piercy comes yet another stunning novel of morality and courage, a bold adventure of women, men, and the world of tomorrow.

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercys landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futuresand what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignityand now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time 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 Piercys great work again or for the first time, itwill 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 Ramoss world is cuttingly real.Newsweek Absorbing and exciting.The New York Times Book Review

A prize-winning collection of old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, about which the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "An exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poig

A major new collection of poems about womens lives and the closing circle of nature, from a bestselling poet. These poems celebrate the beauties of nature and the eternal cycle of love, death and birth that is being interrupted by the assault on the environment.

My Mothers Body, Marge Piercys tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification."The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding ceremony with Ira Wood. This section sings with powerfully female love poetry. There is also a sustained and direct use of her Jewish identity and faith in these poems, as there is in a number of other poems throughout the volume.Readers of Piercys previous collections will not be surprised to encounter her mixture of the personal and the political, her love of animals and the Cape landscape. There are poems about doing housework, about accidents, about dreaming, about bag ladies, about luggage, about childrens fears of nuclear holocaust; about tomcats, insects in the rafters, the influence of a name, appleblossoms and blackberries, pollution, and some of the ways women objectify one another. In "Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?" Piercy writes with lacerating honesty about our relationships with the elderly and about hers with her father.Some of the most moving poems are domestic, as in the final sequence, "Six underrated pleasures," which finds in daily womens tasks both pleasure and mystery, affirmation of serf and connection with the mother.In all, My Mothers Body is one of Piercys most powerful and balanced collections.

A treasure trove of new poems by one of our most sought-after poets: poems that range from descriptions of the Detroit of her childhood to her current life on Cape Cod, from deep appreciations of the natural world to elegies for lost friends and relationships, from a vision of her Jewish heritage to a hard-hitting take on todays political ironies.In her trademark style, combining the sublime with the gritty, Marge Piercy describes the night she was born: the sky burned red / over Detroit and sirens sharpened their knives. / The elms made tents of solace over grimy / streets and alley cats purred me to sleep. She writes in graphic, unflinching language about the poor, banished now by politicians because they are no longer real people like corporations. There are elegies for her peer group of poets, gone now, whose work she cherishes but from whom she cannot help but want more. There are laments for the suicide of dolphins and for her beloved cats, as she remembers exactly how I loved each. She continues to celebrate Jewish holidays in compellingly original ways and sings praises of her marriage and the small pleasures of daily life.This is a stunning collection that will please those who already know Marge Piercys work and offer a splendid introduction to it for those who dont.