Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) [Collection]
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Summary
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This collection of mainstream stories, written from the early eighties to the mid-nineties, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin.
Contents (with Le Guin's classification by genre):
- Half Past Four (Multiplied Realism)
- The Professor's Houses (Miniaturized Realism)
- Ruby on the 67 (Geriatric Realism)
- Limberlost (Californian Realism)
- The Creatures on my Mind (Bestial Realism)
- Standing Ground (Uncompromising Realism)
- The Spoons in the Basement (Oneiric Realism)
- Sunday in Summer in Seatown (Gertrudean Realism)
- In the Drought (Surrealism)
- Ether, OR (Oregonian Realism)
- Unlocking the Air (Orsinian Realism)
- A Child Bride (Mythological Fantasy)
- Climbing to the Moon (Temporal Fantasy)
- Daddy's Big Girl (Real Fantasy)
- Findings (Syntactical Fantasy)
- Olders (Vegetable Fantasy)
- The Wise Woman (Visionary Fantasy)
- The Poacher (Revisionary Fantasy)
Original title: Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction
The following works are contained within this one:
Professor's Houses, the (1982) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Half Past Four (1987) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Child Bride, a (1988) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Unlocking the Air (1990) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Standing Ground (1992) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Poacher, the (1993) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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