Ursula K. Le Guin's richly-imagined vision of a post-apocalyptic
California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her
death
This fourth volume in the Library of America's definitive Ursula K. Le
Guin edition presents her most ambitious novel and finest achievement, a
mid-career masterpiece that showcases her unique genius for world
building. Framed as an anthropologist's report on the Kesh, survivors of
ecological catastrophe living in a future Napa Valley, Always Coming
Home (1985) is an utterly original tapestry of history and myth, fable
and poetry, story- telling and song. Prepared in close consultation with
the author, this expanded edition features new material added just
before her death, including for the first time two "missing" chapters of
the Kesh novel Dangerous People. The volume con- cludes with a selection
of Le guin's essays about the novel's genesis and larger aims, a note on
its editorial and publication history, and an updated chronology of Le
guin's life and career.
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