Rating: 
Summary: A Monumentous Flop
Review: Woman on the Edge of Time is hailed as a treasure of feminist literature. It is also classified as a science fiction novel. Piercy lets readers down in both respects. One of the problems in this novel is the blatant use of stereotypes. The protagonist, Connie Ramos, is not only a woman, but is also Hispanic, poverty-stricken, a single mother, and obese! It is as if Piercy felt like she needed to beat us over the head and say, "Connie is an outcast! Get it? You get it?" Got it. It almost seemed that Piercy did not have enough confidence in her ability to get her point across. Therefore, she needed to make it so insultingly evident that the reader couldn't miss it in the dark. As for the "science fiction" aspect of the book, well, it isn't there. Yes, Connie time travels, and yes we see a utopian/dystopian future. But it's all window dressing for the writer's feminist agenda. All in all, Woman on the Edge of Time is a book with a mission. Marge Piercy's prose and structuring, unfortunately, gets in the way of that mission. ...
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