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No time to spare : thinking about what matters / Ursula K. Le Guin ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E42 .A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging.
- Old age.
- Literature.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors.
- Local Subjects:
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages : illustraion ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
- Summary:
- "From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part one: Going over eighty. In your spare time ; The sissy strikes back ; The diminished thing ; Catching up, ha ha
- The Annals of Pard. Choosing a cat ; Chosen by a cat
- Part two: The lit biz. Would you please fucking stop? ; Readers' questions ; Kids' letters ; Having my cake ; Papa H ; A much-needed literary award ; TGAN and TGOW ; TGAN again ; The narrative gift as a moral conundrum ; It doesn't have to be the way it is ; Utopiyin, utopiyang
- The Annals of Pard. The trouble ; Pard and the time machine
- Part three: Trying to make sense of it. A band of brothers, a stream of sisters ; Exorcists ; Uniforms ; Clinging desperately to a metaphor ; Lying it all away ; The inner child and the nude politician ; A modest proposal: vegempathy ; Belief in belief ; About anger
- The Annals of Pard. An unfinished education ; An unfinished education, continued ; Doggerel for my cat
- Part four: Rewards. The circling stars, the sea surrounding : Philip Glass and John Luther Adams ; Rehearsal ; Someone named Delores ; Without egg ; Notre-Dame de la Faim ; The tree ; The horsies upstairs ; First contact ; The lynx ; Notes from a week at a ranch in the Oregon high desert.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- No time to spare.
- ISBN:
- 9781328661593
- 1328661598
- OCLC:
- 967057463
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