Ursula K. Le Guin: Annals of the Western Shore (Loa #335) - (Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) by Ursula K Le Guin (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Ursula Le Guin's beloved YA series gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition for every reader</b> <p/>This fifth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's work presents a trilogy of coming-of-age stories set in the Western Shore, a world where young people find themselves struggling not just against racism, prejudice, and slavery, but with how to live with the mysterious and magical gifts they have been given. All three novels feature the generous voice and deeply human concerns that mark all Le Guin's work, and together they form an elegant anthem to the revolutionary and transformative power of words and storytelling. <p/>In <b>Gifts</b>, Orrec and Gry will inherit both their families' domains and their gifts, the ability to communicate with animals, or control a mind, or maim or kill with only a word and gesture. Both discover their gifts are not what they thought. In <b>Voices</b>, Memer lives in a city conquered by fundamentalist and superstitious soldiers who have made reading and writing forbidden. But in Memer's house there is a secret room where the last few books in the city have been hidden. And in the Nebula Award-winning <b>Powers</b>, the young slave Gavir can remember any book after reading it just once. It makes him valuable, but it also makes him a threat. Gav sets out to understand who he is, where he came from, and what his gift means. <p/>This deluxe edition features Le Guin's own previously unseen hand-drawn maps. Included in an appendix are essays and interviews about the novels, as well as Le Guin's pronunciation guide to the names and languages of the Western Shore.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ursula K. Le Guin</b> (1929-2018) was the recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. <br/> <br/><b>Brian Attebery</b>, editor, is professor of English at Idaho State University and the editor of <i>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</i>. He edited <i>The Norton Book of Science Fiction</i> (1997) with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler, and is the author of <i>Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth</i> (2014) and <i>Decoding Gender in Science Fiction</i> (2002), among other books.
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