The Resource Always coming home, Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor ; artist: Margaret Chodos-Irvine
Always coming home, Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor ; artist: Margaret Chodos-Irvine
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- Summary
- 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 <i>Always Coming Home</i>, 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, <i>Dangerous People</i>. Survivors 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 <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i> and <i>The Dispossessed</i>. <i>Always Coming Home</i> 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 people, 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.'" --Adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Author's expanded edition.
- Extent
- 826 pages
- Contents
-
- Always coming home
- Pandora revisits the Kesh and comes back with new texts (Le Guin's expanded material, 2017): Dangerous people (complete novel)
- Some Kesh meditations
- Blood Lodge songs
- Kesh syntax
- Other writing related to Always coming home. May's lion ; Navna: The river-running, by Intrumo of Sinshan
- Essays. World-making
- A non-Euclidean view of California as a cold place to be
- The carrier bag theory of fiction
- Text, silence, performance
- Legends for a new land
- The making of Always coming home
- Indian uncles
- Chronology
- Notes on the texts
- Notes
- Isbn
- 9781598536034
- Label
- Always coming home
- Title
- Always coming home
- Statement of responsibility
- Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor ; artist: Margaret Chodos-Irvine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 <i>Always Coming Home</i>, 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, <i>Dangerous People</i>. Survivors 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 <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i> and <i>The Dispossessed</i>. <i>Always Coming Home</i> 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 people, 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.'" --Adapted from jacket
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1929-2018
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3562.E42
- LC item number
- A79 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Chodos-Irvine, Margaret
- Attebery, Brian
- Series statement
- The Library of America
- Series volume
- 315
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Anthropology
- Speculative fiction
- Napa Valley (Calif.)
- California
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical
- Label
- Always coming home, Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor ; artist: Margaret Chodos-Irvine
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Always coming home -- Pandora revisits the Kesh and comes back with new texts (Le Guin's expanded material, 2017): Dangerous people (complete novel) -- Some Kesh meditations -- Blood Lodge songs -- Kesh syntax -- Other writing related to Always coming home. May's lion ; Navna: The river-running, by Intrumo of Sinshan -- Essays. World-making -- A non-Euclidean view of California as a cold place to be -- The carrier bag theory of fiction -- Text, silence, performance -- Legends for a new land -- The making of Always coming home -- Indian uncles -- Chronology -- Notes on the texts -- Notes
- Control code
- on1035459503
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- Author's expanded edition.
- Extent
- 826 pages
- Isbn
- 9781598536034
- Lccn
- 2018952816
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035459503
- Label
- Always coming home, Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor ; artist: Margaret Chodos-Irvine
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Always coming home -- Pandora revisits the Kesh and comes back with new texts (Le Guin's expanded material, 2017): Dangerous people (complete novel) -- Some Kesh meditations -- Blood Lodge songs -- Kesh syntax -- Other writing related to Always coming home. May's lion ; Navna: The river-running, by Intrumo of Sinshan -- Essays. World-making -- A non-Euclidean view of California as a cold place to be -- The carrier bag theory of fiction -- Text, silence, performance -- Legends for a new land -- The making of Always coming home -- Indian uncles -- Chronology -- Notes on the texts -- Notes
- Control code
- on1035459503
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- Author's expanded edition.
- Extent
- 826 pages
- Isbn
- 9781598536034
- Lccn
- 2018952816
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035459503
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