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Searoad : chronicles of Klatsand / Ursula K. Le Guin.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E42 S4 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- 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
- Online:
- http://www.levity.com/corduroy/leguin.htm
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