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In this volume Suzanne Elizabeth Reid takes her reader on a journey through Ursula K. Le Guin's world, from childhood summers spent in California's Napa Valley; to the shipboard romance with her future husband, Charles A. Le Guin; to her poetic life in one of Portland's multiethnic neighborhoods. Reid explores how these events have influenced Le Guin's work. Her parents were Alfred Kroeber, the famed head of UC-Berkeley's Department of Anthropology, and Theodora Kroeber Quinn, author of Ishi in Two Worlds, a biography of the last member of California's Yahi Indians. Her parents' work with Native Americans lay down the threads of Le Guin's environmentalism and pacifism, philosophies that pervade all of her work. In Le Guin's eyes, the individual finds fulfillment not by struggling against the natural world but by seeking his or her place within it. This is true not only for the young people who come of age in many of Le Guin's novels, including the four books of the Earthsea series, but also for her older characters. Readers of all ages can identify with these protagonists as they struggle to find the answers to the same questions that concern us all, independent of time or place. J

Author

Reid, Suzanne Elizabeth

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; London: Prentice Hall International

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805746099

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, History