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: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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"Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."
-Ursula K. Le Guin When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be- a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected...
More Description"Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."
-Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be- a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here-spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalism-highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.