Always coming home
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598536034
- ISBN: 1598536036
- ISBN: 9781598536034 : HRD
- ISBN: 1598536036 : HRD
- ISBN: 1598536036
- ISBN: 9781598536034
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Physical Description:
xi, 523 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
print - Edition: Author's expanded edition.
- Publisher: New York : Library of America, ©2019.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close consultation with the author, features new material added by Le Guin just before her death, including for the first time the complete text of the novella-within-the-novel, Dangerous People.00Survivors of an ecological catastrophe brought on by heedless industrialization, the Kesh live in hard-won balance with their environment and between genders. Le Guin meditates here more deeply and more personally on themes explored earlier in The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.00Always Coming Home is comprised of ?translations? of a wide array of Kesh writings: a three-part narrative by a woman named Stone Telling recounting her travels beyond the Valley, where she lives with the mysterious, patriarchal Condor people; ?Chapter 2? of a novel by the brilliant Kesh writer Wordriver, in which a woman?s disappearance reveals hidden tensions within and beyond her clan; poems; folk tales for adults and children; verse dramas; recipes; even an alphabet and glossary of the Kesh language. To this extraordinary architecture, Le Guin has added a special section of new material, including the two ?missing? chapters of Wordriver?s Dangerous People, newly discovered poetry and meditations of the Kesh ple, and a guide to their syntax. With evocative illustrations by artist Margaret Chodos-Irvine, and Le Guin?s own hand-drawn maps, the cumulative effect is, in the words of Samuel R. Delany, ?Le Guin?s most consistently lyric and luminous book.?0. |
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Subject: | Anthropology California, Northern Fiction Human beings California, Northern Fiction |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC LEGUIN,U (Text) | 34026141858097 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ursula K. le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315) : Author's Expanded Edition
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Ursula K. le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315) : Author's Expanded Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was one of the most acclaimed and admired writers of her generation, the recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Brian Attebery , editor, is professor of English at Idaho State University and the editor of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts . He edited The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1997) with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler, and is the author of Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2014) and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002), among other books.