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Searoad : chronicles of Klatsand / Ursula K. Le Guin.

Van Pelt Library PS3562.E42 S4 1991
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2852
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
Contributor:
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women.
Manners and customs.
Oregon--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Oregon.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters.
Women--Oregon--Fiction.
Seaside resorts--Fiction.
Seaside resorts.
Genre:
Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
193 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, [1991]
Summary:
In these stories, connected loosely but powerfully by their rugged Pacific Northwest setting, LeGuin portrays residents of a small Oregon shore town with sympathy and no sentiment. Many of the tales center around women drawn together in threes - mother, daughter, grandmother - by illness or death.
Contents:
Bill Weisler
Crosswords
Foam women, rain women
Geezers
Hand, cup, shell
Hernes
In and out
Quoits
The Ship Ahoy
Sleepwalkers
Texts
True love.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Oregon Book Award for Fiction, 1992.
Local Notes:
Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on title leaf.
Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
Other Format:
Online version: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Searoad.
ISBN:
0060167408
9780060167400
OCLC:
23463027

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