Ursula K. le Guin: the Last Interview And Other Conversations |
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Author:
| Le Guin, Ursula. K |
Editor:
| Streitfeld, David |
Series title: | The Last Interview Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-61219-779-1 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2019 |
Publisher: | Melville House Publishing
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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When she began writing, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: she was a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, she wrote genre at a time where it was dismissed as non-literary, and she lived West, far from fashionable East coast literary circles. The interviews collected here - covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to her process of world-building, from her experiments with genre to envisioning the end of capitalism - highlight that...
More DescriptionWhen she began writing, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: she was a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, she wrote genre at a time where it was dismissed as non-literary, and she lived West, far from fashionable East coast literary circles. The interviews collected here - covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to her process of world-building, from her experiments with genre to envisioning the end of capitalism - highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.