An edition of Unlocking the Air: Stories (1996)

Unlocking the Air

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An edition of Unlocking the Air: Stories (1996)

Unlocking the Air

Stories

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This collection of mainstream stories, which have been published in such distinguished magazines as The New Yorker, Harper's, Omni, and Playboy, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin. In her own words: "These stories span twelve years of writing, from the early eighties to the mid-nineties. It took them a long time to gather themselves into a whole, with the shape and the subtle interconnections that make a bunch of stories into a book.

"Recently I have published two collections of science-fiction stories. The stories in Unlocking the Air aren't science fiction; they belong variously to plain realism, or magical realism, or surrealism, or postmodern genres that don't even have names yet. They approach reality sometimes frontally, confrontationally, in daylight; sometimes deviously, by a back road in the dark; but they always approach it.

Some take place in realistic settings, such as the central European country of Orsinia or the town of Ether, OR. Others take place in highly fantastic settings, such as Oakland, Cleveland, or Portland. Several of them use a multiple voice, or a mythic voice, to talk about reality, because reality is a slippery fish that often can be caught only in a net of spells, or with the hook of metaphor. These stories are explorations of the mysteries of name and time and ordinary living and ordinary pain."

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Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
207

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Cover of: Aya Tirmanmak ve Diger Oykuler
Aya Tirmanmak ve Diger Oykuler
Nov 04, 2012, Metis
paperback in Turkish
Cover of: Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
October 1999, Bt Bound
Library Binding
Cover of: Las Llaves del Aire
Las Llaves del Aire
June 1998, Minotauro
Hardcover in Spanish
Cover of: Unlocking the Air
Unlocking the Air: Stories
January 15, 1997, Harper Perennial
in English
Cover of: Unlocking the Air
Unlocking the Air: Stories
January 15, 1997, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
Cover of: Unlocking the air and other stories
Unlocking the air and other stories
1996, HarperCollins
in English - 1st ed.

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"Stephen blushed."

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Paperback
Number of pages
207
Dimensions
7.8 x 5 x 0.7 inches
Weight
6.4 ounces

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OL9239550M
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unlockingairstor00guin
ISBN 10
0060928034
ISBN 13
9780060928032
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169817
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92600

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