{"product_id":"ursula-le-guins-earthsea-hardcover","title":"Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Plotz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of the DC library. Four decades and who knows how many re-readings later, her Earthsea owns him still. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe reasons to love her Earthsea are many. Le Guin sets readers adrift among worlds: peripatetic but somehow at home. She sublimely mixes comfort and revelatory, emancipatory unsettlement. \u003cem\u003eUrsula Le Guin's Earthsea \u003c\/em\u003eaims to do justice to both Le Guin's passionate simplicity and her revenant complexity. Small wonder the inspiration she has been for later speculative writers like Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson, and N. K. Jemisin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe boldness and coldness of the later three books of Earthsea is a revelation. In \u003cem\u003eTehanu, Tales from Earthsea\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Other Wind\u003c\/em\u003e, she turned a cold eye, a dragon's searching eye, back on the comfortable green world she herself had made decades earlier. They unfold a distinctive vision of the writer's task: worldbuilding as responsibility plus openness. Call it invitational realism. She builds a world that leaves the real task of building, of creating of imagining and of reimagining, with her readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on his own crooked path--from a DC childhood to teaching in Prague to San Francisco journalism to graduate school and then parenthood--Plotz maps the ways that readers young and old find in Earthsea a kind of scholar's stone, a delightfully mutable surface that rewards recurrent contemplation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Plotz, \u003cem\u003eMandel Professor of Humanities, Brandeis University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in \u003cem\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eB-Side Books\u003c\/em\u003e (Columbia University Press, 2021). He co-hosts two podcasts: Novel Dialogue and Recall This Book. His books include \u003cem\u003eThe Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press, 2000), \u003cem\u003ePortable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press, 2008), and \u003cem\u003eSemi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience from Dickens to Keaton\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press, 2017) He is among the co-founders of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703811764531,"sku":"9780192847881","price":39.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/jTvvWJN2A29780192847881.webp?v=1763340988","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/ursula-le-guins-earthsea-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}