Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand [J0326]

1991 HCDJ in nice clean condition. Ursula K. Le Guin’s most poetic works of fiction unfolds in 13 interconnected stories about women and the lives of artists in a small coastal town in Oregon. One of Ursula K. Le Guin's most realistic works, Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand, which was first published in 1991, is also among her most inventive. Cast as a series of interconnected stories set in a small vacation town on the Oregon coast, it offers vivid and powerfully evocative portraits of the town's residents and the community they have built. Some have deep roots in the village, while others have come for just a weekend: but all are pilgrims subject to inexpressible longings. Le Guin’s response to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, this unforgettable novel plumbs some of the deepest and most abiding themes in Le Guin's work, especially the relationships between mothers and daughters, the nature of women’s work, and the lives of artists.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is a virtuoso masterpiece, realistic but not realist (the difference matters), a novel of sorts, a "story suite" to borrow her favored term, a series of tightly interlinked stories, each from unique perspectives, each enlightening the other, paced and structured and voiced to match the needs of the story-all to escalating emotional effect. I had to stop a number of times because I was stunned."; "Ursula weaves us short stories of isolation and ego and cold sand between your toes, womanhood and control and escape."; "Short interconnected stories that highlight the beauty and inspiration of Oregon."