About this title: An experimental novel that urges readers to take a more active role by creating the parts of the story themselves. Le Guin provides pieces of the story, and, from those raw materials, the reader constructs the rest. Moreover, in "Always Coming Home", the beginning is arbitrary--there is a thematic center to the novel, and the narrative branches out in many directions from the center. It includes poems, plays, short stories, commentary, music, recipes, essays, and information about the fictional Kesh tribe in article-glossary format. This book is a multimedia product--including pictures, text, ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins, London
Date published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780006475958ISBN:0006475957
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 562p. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Spectra Books
Date published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780553262803ISBN:0553262807
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. j-very lightly read copy with mild edge rubbing; page 11 is creased. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. This book is in good to very good condition with some handling/cover wear. Interior pages clean and unmarked, except for some endpaper tanning/a few corner folds. Available for immediate shipment. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Spectra, New York
Date published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780553262803ISBN:0553262807
Description: Good. 0553262807 spine creasing, light edge wear; 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 called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Spectra
Date published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780553262803ISBN:0553262807
Description: Very Good. 0553262807 This mass market paperback book is in REAL GOOD SHAPE! ! FIRST EDITION! Full number line is 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1! Some creasing of the spine and minor signs of wear from reading--nothing major! SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a book that looks a wrinkle or two away from near new! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Spectra Books
Date published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780553262803ISBN:0553262807
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. A great copy with minor edge wear and rubbing to cover. Pages are like new! Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780553262803ISBN:0553262807
Description: Near-Fine. 12mo. {000893} Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin. ISBN 0553262807. Published by Bantam Books in 1986. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK 12mo Sci-Fi {Book Condition} NEAR-FINE {Book Condition Details} Cover: barely visible edge wear, minor creasing on Spine, Text: bright, unmarked pages. {Keywords} FICTION SCIENCE GENERAL. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Spectra
Date published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780553262803ISBN:0553262807
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Description: Very Good. Bantam, PB, 1986, 2nd PB printing. Clean, solid binding, wear on cover and corners, no markings or highlighting, NLHC. read more
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