Searoad (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1898-1990
- Setting: Western United States
- Principal Characters: Fanny Crane Shawe Ozer, Jane Shawe Herne, Lily Frances Herne, Virginia Herne
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Mythology or myths, Race, Abused persons, Murder or homicide, West, U.S., Violence, Hell, Poetics
- Locales: United States
In Letters from the Country (1981), Carol Bly describes the phenomenon of people in middle age realizing the value of “time left.” Almost suddenly, there is a shift from giving time to the inconsequential to a tighter focus of life energies on the essential. While there are few who would say that Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction before her 1986 Bryn Mawr commencement address (published in Dancing at the Edge of the World, 1990) was inconsequential, it would be difficult to deny that her adult fiction after that address shows a new urgency, particularly about listening to...
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