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100 1  Le Guin, Ursula K. 
245 14 The birthday of the world and other stories|h[electronic 
       resource].|cUrsula K Le Guin. 
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520    For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has 
       enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and 
       moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, 
       including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and 
       five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has,
       in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-
       evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich 
       characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The 
       Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these
       worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-
       before-published novella, each of which probes the essence
       of humanity.Here are stories that explore complex social 
       interactions and troublesome issues of gender and sex; 
       that define and defy notions of personal relationships and
       of society itself; that examine loyalty, survival, and 
       introversion; that bring to light the vicissitudes of 
       slavery and the meaning of transformation, religion, and 
       history. The first six tales in this spectacular volume 
       are set in the author's signature world of the Ekumen, "my
       pseudo-coherent universe with holes in the elbows," as Le 
       Guin describes it -- a world made familiar in her award-
       winning novel The Left Hand of Darkness. The seventh, 
       title story was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "remarkable
       . . . a standout." The final offering in the collection, 
       Paradises Lost, is a mesmerizing novella of space 
       exploration and the pursuit of happiness.In her foreword, 
       Ursula K. Le Guin writes, "to create difference-to 
       establish strangeness-then to let the fiery arc of human 
       emotion leap and close the gap: this acrobatics of the 
       imagination fascinates and satisfies me as no other." In 
       The Birthday of the World, this gifted literary acrobat 
       exhibits a dazzling array of skills that will fascinate 
       and satisfy us all. 
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650  7 Short Stories.|2OverDrive 
650 17 Fiction.|2OverDrive 
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