The Eye of the Heron - Softcover
On an alien planet inhabited by two communities exiled from the Earth, a courageous young woman flees her prison-like existence among the vicious denizens of the City to lead the free-spirited Shanty Towners in building a new colony
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About the Author:
"This small gem of a novel encapsulates the qualities that make Le Guin a key figure in today's science fiction." --Publishers Weekly
"Queen of the realm of fantasy."--Washington Post
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. L e Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."--The Boston Globe
"Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself."--Zadie Smith
"Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory." --Jonathan Lethem
URSULA K. LE GUIN is the acclaimed author of more than three dozen books. She has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, invited into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and won numerous awards for her fiction for children and adults. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 006105609X
- ISBN 13 9780061056093
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages198
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