Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1985 • Harper & Row

Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1985] HARPER & ROW

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  *Does not include cassette tape. 

Dust jacket is in excellent shape; touch of fading and some mild shelf wear.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.  

Book itself has a few small spot stains on text block and some bumping to corners of boards.  Otherwise, excellent. Cloth boards are beautifully clean and pages look flawless and show no wear.

Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. Finalist for the National Book Award, after more than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other.

A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family.

Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.