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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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Available on 10/14/2025
ISBN: 9798892742504
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Available on 10/14/2025
ISBN: 9798228352384
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Cheek by Jowl, a collection of talks and essays onhow and why fantasy matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin. In these essays, Le Guin argues passionately that thehomogenization of our world makes the work of fantasy essential for helping us break through what she calls''the reality trap.'' Le Guin writes not only of the pleasures of her own childhood reading, but also about whatfantasy means for all of us living in the global twenty-first century.Author
Author Bio: Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of novels, children’s books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry, literary criticism, and essays. She was widely recognized as one of the greatest science fiction writers in the history of the genre. She won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on several occasions, as well as the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and many other honors and prizes. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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