![]() ![]() The pimp beats her up and then forces the niece to lie to officials about what happened. Connie Ramos pays her second visit to Rockover because her niece is beaten up by her pimp when the pimp comes to take the niece away, Connie breaks his nose with a bottle. The patients must fight off constant heavy doses of drugs, and when they manage this they are pleasant, decent people. ![]() The staff is the enemy, and the most powerful members of the staff are determined and vicious. But despite these drawbacks, it is far from being a bad book, and, once it gets under way, it is both absorbing and exciting.Ībout mental hospitals Piercy has nothing to add. For all these reasons, “Woman on the Edge of Time” is not really a successful novel. It does not help Piercy's new novel, either, that the major instruments of her polemic are terribly familiar pieces of apparatus, the mental hospital and a utopian community of the future. ![]() Polemics usually reduce themselves to stances and arguments, and fiction thus reduced tends to be nagging, repetitive, clogged, staged. It is hard to write good polemical fiction, and a good long polemical novel is almost impossible. She also writes novels, and her latest, “Woman on the Edge of Time,” is a long novel. ![]()
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