Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand

Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand

Ursula K. Le Guin

Publication
1991

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About the Book

Contents:

  • Foam Women, Rain Women
  • The Ship Ahoy
  • Hand, Cup, Shell
  • Geezers
  • In and Out
  • Bill Weisler
  • True Love
  • Sleepwalkers
  • Quoits
  • Crosswords
  • Texts
  • Hernes

In one of her most deeply felt works of fiction, Le Guin explores the dreams and sorrows of the inhabitants of Klatsand, Oregon, a beach town where ordinary people bring their dreams and sorrows for a weekend or the rest of their lives, and sometimes learn to read what the sea writes on the sand. Searoad is the story of a particular place that could be any place, and of a people so distinctly drawn they could be any of us.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

In a literary landscape often dominated by action and conquest, Ursula K. Le Guin carved quiet, radical paths—through forests of magic, across alien planets, and into the deep folds of human nature. Her stories didn’t shout; they asked, wondered, and listened. Through them, she reimagined what science fiction and…

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