Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Maybe we'll just cut out part of her brain instead, the doctors say. They put the implant in her brain… but she keeps going unconscious and the doctors get freaked out, so they take the implant out. While she does get away for a couple of days, she's recaptured.

Connie doesn't want nefarious doctors messing with her brain (who would?), especially when she sees what happens to other folks who are experimented on. Redding wants to put an implant in her brain that is supposed to allow the doctors to turn off her violent impulses. In the asylum, Connie is selected for a fancy experiment the nefarious Dr. Connie's been committed before, so the hospital believes Geraldo (and Dolly who backs him up because Dolly is kind of an awful mess). Connie busts Geraldo's nose Geraldo knocks her out.

So what happens for certain? Consuela Ramos (Connie) gets in a fight with her niece Dolly's pimp, Geraldo, when Geraldo tries to convince Dolly to have an illegal abortion. And then other parts are all about fantastical, bizarre things like people being born out of tubes, talking to cats, and dodging cyborg assassins.Īre you supposed to believe in the turkey and the cyborgs? The pettiness and the talking cats? Or only turkey and no cyborgs? (Surely not only cyborgs and no turkey?) The book never lets you know for sure, because it's a jerk like that. OL14912969W Page_number_confidence 95.38 Pages 392 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220126122515 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 558 Scandate 20220123172229 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780704338371 Tts_version 4.Parts of Woman on the Edge of Time are all about realistic, mundane things like people being petty and families bickering over Thanksgiving turkey. Urn:lcp:womanonedgeoftim0000pier:epub:d4d8935c-d63a-49ef-8204-866048d03204 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier womanonedgeoftim0000pier Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s29qdkchmqs Invoice 1652 Isbn 0704338378Ġ704346567 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9614 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000521 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:02:37 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40337401 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy