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Dispossessed

by Ursula K Le Guin
Dispossessed

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ISBN10: 0061054887



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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.

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"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.


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Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, four volumes of poetry, and nineteen novels. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered epochmaking in the field because of its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity.

Three of Le Guin's books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon.


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Michael Richmond , March 06, 2018
First read this when I was 16, my amazingly progressive 11th grade English teacher (1982!) felt I was ready for it, and it has been of my favorite books since. Someone needs to make a movie or mini-series of it, like James Cameron. Still amazes me how she nailed greed and global warming coming together to nearly destroy Earth civilization when she wrote this in 1973!

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Jonathan Brooks , August 01, 2012
LeGuin's ideas look so much better in mind than the business as usual, mass extinction by mass consumption, self-worth quantifiable in material wealth, exploitation, coercion, punishment and ambient resentment of reality in capitalist post-industrialism.

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grrlpup , August 01, 2012 (view all comments by grrlpup)
Can someone who feels alienated from two societies come to be a bridge between them? Ursula LeGuin's elegant writing and sympathetic main character pulled me along in this utopian-or-is-it novel. A book that studies the structure of societies is in danger of being static and boringly descriptive, but the structure of the book-- starting at a decision point, then alternately following the characters forward and going back to illuminate what led them to that decision-- kept things fresh. I'm glad I read it.

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ISBN:
9780061054884
Binding:
Mass Market
Publication date:
10/20/1994
Publisher:
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Series info:
Hainish Cycle
Pages:
400
Height:
1.20IN
Width:
6.70IN
Thickness:
1.00
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1994
Series Volume:
LS12
UPC Code:
2800061054886
Author:
Ursula K Le Guin
Author:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Subject:
Utopias
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Science Fiction and Fantasy-A to Z
Subject:
Fiction

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