Always coming home /

"A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley...

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Author / Creator: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018 (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Attebery, Brian, 1951- editor.
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:Author's expanded edition.
Imprint: New York : Library of America, [2019]
Series:Library of America ; 315.
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