Always Coming Home
$21.95, paperback
978-0-520-22735-4
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534 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 169 line illustrations, 7 maps, 4 tables, 2 music examples
February 2001, Only available in Include North America
Categories: Literary Studies; Fiction; Folklore & Mythology; California & the West
February 2001, Only available in Include North America
Categories: Literary Studies; Fiction; Folklore & Mythology; California & the West
"An appealing book as well as a masterly one. . . .The future world she has created here is awesomely complex."—Newsweek
"The effect it has on the reader is hypnotic. . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land."—People
"[It may] be Le Guin's finest achievement."—Newsday
"A gift to the reader, a gentle and wise book that is [Le Guin's] most personal, her most daring, probably her best yet."—St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Ursula Le Guin is among the half-dozen most respected American writers who regularly set their narrative in the future to force a dialogue with the here and now, a dialogue generally called science fiction. She is also a much-loved writer. Always Coming Home is a slow, rich read, full of what one loves most in her work: a liberal utopian vision, rendered far more complex than the term 'utopian' usually allows for by a sense of human suffering. This is her most satisfying text among a set of texts that have provided much imaginative pleasure in her 23 years as an author."—New York Times Book Review
"Reading Always Coming Home is an act of discovery. . . . Everything Le Guin does is interesting, believable and exquisitely detailed."—Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"Adds up to a gorgeously complex portrayal of a yet-to-exist society."—Globe and Mail
"The effect it has on the reader is hypnotic. . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land."—People
"[It may] be Le Guin's finest achievement."—Newsday
"A gift to the reader, a gentle and wise book that is [Le Guin's] most personal, her most daring, probably her best yet."—St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Ursula Le Guin is among the half-dozen most respected American writers who regularly set their narrative in the future to force a dialogue with the here and now, a dialogue generally called science fiction. She is also a much-loved writer. Always Coming Home is a slow, rich read, full of what one loves most in her work: a liberal utopian vision, rendered far more complex than the term 'utopian' usually allows for by a sense of human suffering. This is her most satisfying text among a set of texts that have provided much imaginative pleasure in her 23 years as an author."—New York Times Book Review
"Reading Always Coming Home is an act of discovery. . . . Everything Le Guin does is interesting, believable and exquisitely detailed."—Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"Adds up to a gorgeously complex portrayal of a yet-to-exist society."—Globe and Mail
Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.
www.ursulakleguin.com The Ursula K. Le Guin website
www.mind.net/music/: The CD of the original music created for this book. Listen to a sample, "Heron Dance," at www.mind.net/music/sounds.html
www.mind.net/music/: The CD of the original music created for this book. Listen to a sample, "Heron Dance," at www.mind.net/music/sounds.html