The Dispossessed Contributor(s): Le Guin, Ursula K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061054887 ISBN-13: 9780061054884 Publisher: Harper Voyager
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1994 * Out of Print * Annotation: Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change. Click for more in this series: Hainish Cycle |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Space Exploration - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 820(Not Available) |
Series: Hainish Cycle |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 4.2" W x 6.75" L (0.45 lbs) 400 pages |
Features: Maps, Price on Product |
Awards: Hugo Award, Winner, Novel, 1975 Nebula Awards, Winner, Novel, 1974 |
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/16/2007 pg. 16 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "One of the greats....Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." - Stephen King From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust -- and the man who risks everything to reunite them. A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras--a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart. To visit Urras--to learn, to teach, to share--will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. But the ambitious scientist's gift is soon seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change. |
Contributor Bio(s): Le Guin, Ursula K.: - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, and lives in Portland, Oregon. As of 2014, she has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry, and four of translation, and has received many honors and awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, and PEN/Malamud. Her most recent publications are Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems and The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories. |
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