"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 dignity--and 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 ...
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"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 dignity--and 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"--
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Add this copy of Woman on the Edge of Time to cart. $50.50, good condition, Sold by Montclair Book Center rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Montclair, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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USED Good. Good Jacket. Stated First Edition. Clean and tight. Very slightly cocked. Dust jacket has some mild shelf wear (tiny chipping at corners, rubbing, small stain at back bottom edge), now in protective bro-dart. Not price clipped. Edge of book block is a little foxed.
Add this copy of Woman on the Edge of Time to cart. $94.88, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Random House Inc.
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This is a great book, albiet somewhat disturbing at times. The overall messages about how we treat people, visions for the future and the possibility for another world are eye-opening and thought provoking.
