Always Coming Home

Paperback, 525 pages

English language

Published Feb. 5, 2001 by University of California Press.

ISBN:
978-0-520-22735-4
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This is a bit of an uneven read ... not having an anthropological backround of any type, the stylistic nods to (older styles of) writing of this type completely missed me.

Still- the stunning conception overall as well as the stone telling bits stand out as truly exceptional.

Want to read this again (someday) ...

Also I bought the music disc, which I found less lively (more academic) than I had hoped for (although fitting for the conception overall)- perhaps it's worth another listen.

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Not always a page-turner, but I had a great time in this world.

This felt a lot like the reading I did for my ancient civilization classes in college, but here Ursula K. Le Guin was doing the work of an entire people. I expect I'll be thinking a lot about the folks living in the Valley in the future.

What have I been thinking about already? Here's some

The portrayal of the Dayao is flatter than that of the Urrastians in the Dispossessed, I think. Maybe there just wasn't as much time to develop them - and maybe some of it is just how Stone Telling talks about her life.

The way Le Guin uses language and metaphor to shape a world-view is fascinating (& very self-aware). Examples include referring to all entities in the world as "people," or the way the Kesh identify "giving" and "wealth," or the …

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