Always Coming Home/Paperback Book and Cassette
 

Always Coming Home/Paperback Book and Cassette

by Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, George Hersh

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... (read more)

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Dirk
  • Rated 4 stars

An impressive example of world-building. It's not really a novel, though there's a short novel (divided into four parts) hidden in here. In fact, that short novel is my least favorite part of the book. I much prefer the "ethnographic" material filling the cracks.

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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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