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No time to spare : thinking about what matters
Record details
- ISBN: 1328661598
- ISBN: 9781328661593
- ISBN: 1328661598 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781328661593 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781328661593 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1328661598 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
xx, 215 pages ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Writer of introduction taken from dust jacket. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / by Karen Joy Fowler -- A note at the beginning -- Part one. Going over eighty. In your spare time ; The sissy strikes back ; The diminished thing ; Catching up, ha ha -- The Annals of Pard. Choosing a cat ; Chosen by a cat -- Part two. The lit biz. Would you please fucking stop? ; Readers' questions ; Kids' letters ; Having my cake ; Papa H ; A much-needed literary award ; TGAN and TGOW ; TGAN again ; The narrative gift as a moral conundrum ; It doesn't have to be the way it is ; Utopiyin, utopiyang -- The Annals of Pard. The trouble ; Pard and the time machine -- Part three. Trying to make sense of it. A band of brothers, a stream of sisters ; Exorcists ; Uniforms ; Clinging desperately to a metaphor ; Lying it all away ; The inner child and the nude politician ; A modest proposal: vegempathy ; Belief in belief ; About anger -- The Annals of Pard. An unfinished education ; An unfinished education, continued ; Doggerel for my cat -- Part four. Rewards. The circling stars, the sea surrounding: Philip Glass and John Luther Adams ; Rehearsal ; Someone named Delores ; Without egg ; Notre-Dame de la Faim ; The tree ; The horsies upstairs ; First contact ; The lynx ; Notes from a week at a ranch in the Oregon high desert. |
| Summary, etc.: | "From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation"-- |
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| Subject: | Old age Literature United States Civilization Literature Old age Aging |
| Genre: | Essays. |
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| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 814 LEGUIN, U. (Text) | 32544072482556 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | 814.54 LeG (Text) | 33160142356396 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | 814.54 L (Text) | 34030141548732 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | 814 LE GUIN (Text) | 34000081275307 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | 814 LE GUIN (Text) | 34000081275273 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | 814 LE GUIN (Text) | 34000081275315 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Derby Neck Library | ESSAYS LEG (Text) | 34046140385876 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library of Hebron | 814.54 LEG (Text) | 33400141419062 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | 814.54 LEGUIN (Text) | 34026141128384 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | 814.54 LE GUIN (Text) | 34037143274217 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
