Changing Planes: Stories - Couverture rigide

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151009716 ISBN 13 : 9780151009718

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

"Then came a child trotting to school with his little backpack. He trotted on all fours, neatly, his hands in leather mitts or boots that protected them from the pavement; he was pale, with small eyes, and a snout, but he was adorable."
--from Changing Planes

The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes--not airplanes but planes of existence. Ursula Le Guin's deadpan premise frames a series of travel accounts by the tourist-narrator who describes bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own, and sometimes open puzzling doors into the alien.


Winner of the PEN/Malamud for Short Stories

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Then came a child trotting to school with his little backpack. He trotted on all fours, neatly, his hands in leather mitts or boots that protected them from the pavement; he was pale, with small eyes, and a snout, but he was adorable."
--from Changing Planes

The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes--not airplanes but planes of existence. Ursula Le Guin's deadpan premise frames a series of travel accounts by the tourist-narrator who describes bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own, and sometimes open puzzling doors into the alien.

Winner of the PEN/Malamud for Short Stories

Revue de presse

PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN

"{Le Guin] is a splendid short story writer. [Her] fiction, like Borges's, finds its life in the interstices between the borders of speculative fiction and realism."--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"The people, places and emotions in Le Guin's stories are typically strange, but her careful, sudden turns toward the familiar. . . seem like revelations of what's really important or fascinating about human life."--Salon

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151009716
• ISBN 13: 9780151009718
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Beddow Eric
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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