Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guins richly-imagined vision of a post-apocalyptic California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her death This fourth volume in the Library of Americas definitive Ursula K. Le Guin edition presents her most ambitious novel and finest achievement, a mid-career masterpiece that showcases her unique genius for world building. Framed as an anthropologists report on the Kesh, survivors of ecological catastrophe living in a future Napa Valley, Always Coming Home (1985) is an utterly original tapestry of history and myth, fable and poetry, storytelling and song. Prepared in close consultation with the author, this expanded edition features new material added just before her death, including for the first time two ?missing? chapters of the Kesh novel Dangerous People. The volume concludes with a selection of Le guins essays about the novels genesis and larger aims, a note on its editorial and publication history, and an updated chronology of Le guins life and career. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.