Gate to Women's Country - Softcover

Tepper, Sheri S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575131047 ISBN 13: 9780575131040

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co, 2013

Synopsis

1st Gollancz 2013 SF Masterworks trade edition paperback fine book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

About this title

About the Author:

Sheri S. Tepper is the author of several resoundingly acclaimed novels, including THE MARGARETS and GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL both shortlisted for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD, A PLAGUE OF ANGELS, SIDESHOW and BEAUTY, which was voted BEST FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR by readers of LOCUS. She is one of the few writers to have titles in both the SF and Fantasy Masterworks lists.

From Publishers Weekly:

Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning. The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provoc ative ideas. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0575131047
• ISBN 13: 9780575131040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 315