The classic feminist dystopian novel - reissued on its 40th Anniversary with a new introduction by the author
Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen novels including the
classic Woman on the Edge of Time; nineteen volumes of poetry; four
non-fiction books as well as her critically acclaimed memoir. Born
in Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan, and the
recipient of four honorary doctorates, she has been a key player in
many of the major progressive political battles of our time,
including the anti-Vietnam war and the women's movement, and more
recently an active participant in the resistance to the war in
Iraq.
Praised as one of the few American writers who are accomplished
poets as well as novelists - Piercy is one of the country's
bestselling poets - she is also the master of many genres-
historical novels, science fiction (for which she won the Arthur C.
Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction in the United Kingdom),
novels of social comment and contemporary entertainments. She has
taught, lectured, and performed her work at well over 400
universities around the world.
"Genius...Marge Piercy is every bit as imaginative as H. G. Wells
or Isaac Asimov or any of the great fantasists, but she is also a
fierce and devoted activist who wants us to be more than passive
readers...I urge you to read Marge Piercy now."
*Gloria Steinem*
"Marge Piercy’s characters are complex and very human"
*Margaret Atwood*
"Here is somebody with the guts to go into the deepest core of
herself, her time, her history, and risk more than anybody else has
so far, just out of a love for the truth and a need to tell
it."
*Thomas Pynchon*
"One of the most important novelists of our time"
*Erica Jong*
"Marge Piercy is the political novelist of our time. More: she is
the conscience"
*Marilyn French*
"Both absorbing and exciting"
*New York Times Book Review*
"Intelligent, thoughtfully constructed…perhaps the most important
novel in the Piercy canon"
*Time Out*
"a fiercely brilliant writer. . . a novel which is chilling,
provocative and...controversial"
*Jane Howard*
"Anyone who wants to learn what the revolution against the fat
society is all about should read Marge Piercy's novel"
*Time*
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