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[[Image:LeGuin-AlwaysComingHome-1.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Cover used for a paperback and the box set with cassette audio recording]] | |||
'''''Always Coming Home''''' is a 1985 novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], focusing on the character [[Stone Telling]] and her life with the [[Kesh]] and her experiences in a nearby patriarchal culture (the Condor people, aka the Dayao); and focusing perhaps even more on the culture of the Kesh. | '''''Always Coming Home''''' is a 1985 novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], focusing on the character [[Stone Telling]] and her life with the [[Kesh]] and her experiences in a nearby patriarchal culture (the Condor people, aka the Dayao); and focusing perhaps even more on the culture of the Kesh. | ||
The book contains a significant amount of cultural lore and essays on Kesh culture, and notes from [[Pandora (Le Guin character)|Pandora]]. | The book contains a significant amount of cultural lore and essays on Kesh culture, and notes from [[Pandora (Le Guin character)|Pandora]]. Some editions were published with a cassette audio recording of "Songs and Poetry of the Kesh", performed by Todd Barton; the book contains illustrations by Margaret Chodos. Always Coming Home was adapted for the theater at Naropa University in 1993 by [[Ruth Davis-Fyer]], with music composed and directed by Brian Mac Ian. | ||
: After [Le Guin's] second sabbatical in England, she looked around her Oregon home and made a commitment to "my dirt," shedding the last vestiges of what she calls "Europe-centeredness." She joyously returned to the anthropology and Native American tales of her childhood in the Napa Valley in her second utopian novel, "Always Coming Home" (1985), winner of the Kafka Prize for Fiction and short-listed for the National Book Award. | |||
: In this novel, Le Guin tries to "make a world that is a little less cruel and hard on the people who live in it than our world is." The book is remarkable for its structure and its content. Le Guin abandons the traditional narrative form and creates a fictional anthropology of a people far in the future, the Kesh, who have adopted a distinctly Native American way of life. Our dysfunctional historical era is referred to as "the time when people lived outside the world." It's a remarkably rich collection of short stories, myths, poems and music, held together by a central novella and explained by more traditional anthropological "back matter." In this work Le Guin brings together all her passions -- the balance of Taoism, an anarchic "feminine" style, environmentalism and great storytelling.<ref>Faith L. Justice, [http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin/print.html "Ursula K. Le Guin"], ''Salon.com'', Jan. 23, 2001.</ref> | |||
==Recognition== | ==Recognition== | ||
* Kafka Award | * Kafka Award | ||
== | ==Further reading== | ||
* [http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-alwayscominghome/ study guide] for ACH | * [http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-alwayscominghome/ study guide] for ACH | ||
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_alwayscominghome.txt Book discussion group] on feministSF mailing list (July. 2001) | |||
==Editions== | ==Editions== | ||
* | * Box with book and cassette audio recording | ||
* ISBN 0-06-015456-X, | ** ISBN 0-06-015456-X (1985 trade paperback) | ||
** ISBN 0-06-015545-0 (1985 hardcover) | |||
** ISBN 0-575-03860-8 (1986 hardcover, UK edition) | |||
* Hardcover/paperback editions | |||
** ISBN 0-553-26280-7 (1986, paperback) | |||
** ISBN 0-575-03855-1 (1986, hardcover, UK edition) | |||
** ISBN 0-553-26280-7 (1987, paperback) | |||
** ISBN 0-586-07383-3 (1988, trade paperback, UK edition) | |||
** ISBN 5-552-89803-6 (1991, paperback) | |||
** ISBN 0-00-647595-7 (1993, trade paperback, UK edition) | |||
** ISBN 0-520-22735-2 (2001, trade paperback) | |||
* 1993: theatrical adaptation | * 1993: theatrical adaptation | ||
==References== | |||
{{reflist}} | |||
[[Category:1985 publications]] | [[Category:1985 publications]] | ||
[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
[[Category:Works by Ursula K. Le Guin]] | |||
Latest revision as of 06:25, 12 April 2008
Always Coming Home is a 1985 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, focusing on the character Stone Telling and her life with the Kesh and her experiences in a nearby patriarchal culture (the Condor people, aka the Dayao); and focusing perhaps even more on the culture of the Kesh.
The book contains a significant amount of cultural lore and essays on Kesh culture, and notes from Pandora. Some editions were published with a cassette audio recording of "Songs and Poetry of the Kesh", performed by Todd Barton; the book contains illustrations by Margaret Chodos. Always Coming Home was adapted for the theater at Naropa University in 1993 by Ruth Davis-Fyer, with music composed and directed by Brian Mac Ian.
- After [Le Guin's] second sabbatical in England, she looked around her Oregon home and made a commitment to "my dirt," shedding the last vestiges of what she calls "Europe-centeredness." She joyously returned to the anthropology and Native American tales of her childhood in the Napa Valley in her second utopian novel, "Always Coming Home" (1985), winner of the Kafka Prize for Fiction and short-listed for the National Book Award.
- In this novel, Le Guin tries to "make a world that is a little less cruel and hard on the people who live in it than our world is." The book is remarkable for its structure and its content. Le Guin abandons the traditional narrative form and creates a fictional anthropology of a people far in the future, the Kesh, who have adopted a distinctly Native American way of life. Our dysfunctional historical era is referred to as "the time when people lived outside the world." It's a remarkably rich collection of short stories, myths, poems and music, held together by a central novella and explained by more traditional anthropological "back matter." In this work Le Guin brings together all her passions -- the balance of Taoism, an anarchic "feminine" style, environmentalism and great storytelling.[1]
Recognition
- Kafka Award
Further reading
- study guide for ACH
- Book discussion group on feministSF mailing list (July. 2001)
Editions
- Box with book and cassette audio recording
- ISBN 0-06-015456-X (1985 trade paperback)
- ISBN 0-06-015545-0 (1985 hardcover)
- ISBN 0-575-03860-8 (1986 hardcover, UK edition)
- Hardcover/paperback editions
- ISBN 0-553-26280-7 (1986, paperback)
- ISBN 0-575-03855-1 (1986, hardcover, UK edition)
- ISBN 0-553-26280-7 (1987, paperback)
- ISBN 0-586-07383-3 (1988, trade paperback, UK edition)
- ISBN 5-552-89803-6 (1991, paperback)
- ISBN 0-00-647595-7 (1993, trade paperback, UK edition)
- ISBN 0-520-22735-2 (2001, trade paperback)
- 1993: theatrical adaptation
References
- ↑ Faith L. Justice, "Ursula K. Le Guin", Salon.com, Jan. 23, 2001.