The Eye of the Heron - Softcover
Two of Ursula Le Guin's studies into the exploitative nature of mankind. "The Eye of the Heron" parallels the situation in South Africa, while "The Word for World is Forest" draws a post-Vietnam picture of what happens when a race ceases to be regarded as human.
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"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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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0575050608
- ISBN 13 9780575050600
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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