The Dispossessed

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Price
$17.99  $16.73
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publish Date
Pages
400
Dimensions
5.34 X 8.16 X 0.88 inches | 0.64 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780060512750

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About the Author
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with a PEN/Malamud Award and many others. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016, she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
KAREN JOY FOWLER is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Black Glass. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy Awards.
Reviews

"Le Guin's most philosophical novel. . . . The Dispossessed is a study of character, ideology and the constant of change." -- New York Times

"The Dispossessed is still one of Sci-Fi's' smartest books." -- Wired

"Written with thought, care--even love." -- Times Literary Supplement (London)

"Le Guin's characters, sepecially Shevek and his family, are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace." -- Time magazine

"The Dispossessed paints a hopeful and complex portrait of a society rooted in collectivism."

-- Naomi Klein, The Week

"Engrossing . . . Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind." -- Cincinnati Enquirer

"A seamless creation: every thing is made up, nothing seems arbitrary...Le Guin's book [is] written in her solid, no-nonsense prose." -- New York Times Book Review

"Brilliantly conceived and stunningly executed . . . The setting is science fiction, but the tradition is humanistic, reducing life to its essentials and examining human beings in a real world." -- Chicago Daily News

"The combination of intelligence and imagination sends ideas dancing endlessly around the brain." -- Christian Science Monitor

"The novel flashes back and forth . . . and delicately develops both the strengths and weaknesses of the two social systems, the contrasting textures of the two kinds of social experience . . . All through, this impresses with small but incalculably right choices which add up solidly and confirm Ms. Le Guin as one of our finest projectionists of brave old and other worlds." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Excellent characterization and meaningful ideas make this one of the most important [science fiction] novels of the last several years." -- Library Journal

"I would be hard pressed to think of another novel that made as strong an impression on me." -- Anthony Ha, author of Love Songs for Monsters

"This remains a challenging and urgent book." -- The Guardian

"Deeply worthwhile reading -- subtle, challenging, exquisitely crafted." -- sfsite.com

"[Ursula Le Guin] . . . is science fiction's best ambassador to the rest of the world, ever. She has done more to show people why this is an important genre--and maybe the mode of literature we need to navigate our way into a very uncertain future--than anyone else ever will." -- Lisa Yaszek, Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech

"One of our finest projectionists of brave old and other worlds." -- Kirkus Reviews