| Description |
xx, 215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Part one: Going over eighty. In your spare time ; The sissy strikes back ; The diminished thing ; Catching up, ha ha -- The Annals of Pard. Choosing a cat ; Chosen by a cat -- Part two: The lit biz. Would you please fucking stop? ; Readers' questions ; Kids' letters ; Having my cake ; Papa H ; A much-needed literary award ; TGAN and TGOW ; TGAN again ; The narrative gift as a moral conundrum ; It doesn't have to be the way it is ; Utopiyin, utopiyang -- The Annals of Pard. The trouble ; Pard and the time machine -- Part three: Trying to make sense of it. A band of brothers, a stream of sisters ; Exorcists ; Uniforms ; Clinging desperately to a metaphor ; Lying it all away ; The inner child and the nude politician ; A modest proposal: vegempathy ; Belief in belief ; About anger -- The Annals of Pard. An unfinished education ; An unfinished education, continued ; Doggerel for my cat -- Part four: Rewards. The circling stars, the sea surrounding : Philip Glass and John Luther Adams ; Rehearsal ; Someone named Delores ; Without egg ; Notre-Dame de la Faim ; The tree ; The horsies upstairs ; First contact ; The lynx ; Notes from a week at a ranch in the Oregon high desert. |
| Summary |
"From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts, always adroit, often acerbic, on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject(S) |
Aging.
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Old age.
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Literature.
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United States -- Civilization.
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Essays.
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| Added Name(S) |
Fowler, Karen Joy, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781328661593 (hardcover) |
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1328661598 (hardcover) |
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