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Always Coming Home Paperback – 13 September 2016

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A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh.

But ALWAYS COMING HOME is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - ALWAYS COMING HOME is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices.

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Publisher : Gateway; 1st edition (13 September 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 544 pages
ISBN-10 : 1473205808
ISBN-13 : 978-1473205802
Dimensions : 13.2 x 4.5 x 19.8 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 180,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 943 in Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction (Books)
- 1,439 in Science Fiction Anthologies
- 4,934 in Coming of Age Fantasy

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Lyric and luminous . . . a major imaginative vision - The New York Times Book Review

An appealing book as well as a masterly one . . . The future world she has created here is awesomely complex - Newsweek

The effect it has on the reader is hypnotic . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land - People

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Lyric and luminous . . . a major imaginative vision - The New York Times Book Review

An appealing book as well as a masterly one . . . The future world she has created here is awesomely complex - Newsweek

The effect it has on the reader is hypnotic . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land - People

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Colin Ford

A beautiful and profound book.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 December 2016

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This is perhaps Ursula LeGuin's finest work. Detailed and moving. In this book she has created a world full of passion and beauty, and offered a vision of what it is to be human, and yet linked to the world.

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avalon111

Beautiful writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2019

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I had a British Grafton 'trade paperback' copy which had lasted over-a-decade. After Ursula passed-away I re-read Always Coming Home and realised my copy wasn't going to last many more re-reads, and I'd read it three times already. So I looked for the University of California Press edition, and found one at a reasonable price.

With LeGuin's passing, Always Coming Home is, from my perspective, her greatest work; an intense and original novel which gives us a both detailed-and-lyrical vision of a society which never was, but which is one many would like to aspire-to. The illustrations which accompany the book are superb (I've not managed to secure an edition with the original-music CD) but the writing. Oh, the writing. LeGuin hit a rich vein with the subject matter and her writing and accompanying poetry are simply sublime.

It probably isn't for everyone. It's certainly not 'hard' science fiction, it's not a fantasy. LeGuin seemed have invented a new genre - an anthropological novel. Except no-one else has been capable of following her lead.

Just a wonderful book.

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Mr. James A. Newton

Fantastic!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2013

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This is an incredible book. I'm awestruck at the imagination and thought in itself, let alone the quality of the writing itself. It's obvious to anyone who has read this that Ursula Le Guin was heavily influenced by the life, works and writings of her parents - Alfred and Theodora Kroeber. In fairness to some of the less favourable reviews this isn't an easy read: it goes back and forth and works in some ways more like an anthropological record than a coherent, linear story. It's not `fantasy' in anything remotely like a `standard format'. It's taken me several months to read, I put it down, then pick it up, but it's sort of made to work well that way. If you are genuinely interested in reading something very different then this should not disappoint.

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Kat Weazle

Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2018

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Another masterwork from Le Guin, staggeringly detailed and alluring, you forget that this is basically SF, NOT history! Nicely presented, too.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2018

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Half way through and don't want it to end. This really is a masterwork.

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Nikki Bond

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2017

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great book, thank you

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