'Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her' Zadie Smith 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER Through his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real - but who is controlling him? War rages and global warming wreaks havoc on the quality of life everywhere as seven billion ...
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'Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her' Zadie Smith 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER Through his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real - but who is controlling him? War rages and global warming wreaks havoc on the quality of life everywhere as seven billion people jostle for living space and food. For George Orr, a mild and unremarkable man, the world is overwhelmingly difficult. But George is different: his dreams can change reality - although he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help, directing George to dream a world without racism. But as ambition gets the better of ethics, no one can predict the devastating consequences.
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Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven By Ursula K. Le Guin (1971-11-08) to cart. $299.40, good condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1892 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven (Book Club Edition) to cart. $373.52, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Very Good. SIGNED! New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Book Club edition. 8vo. 185pp. Signed by author on customized label affixed to title page. Very Good book. Near Very Good dust jacket. Gutter code B44 (October 1977). Dust jacket has some small tears on crown, and a small punch in middle of spine cover. rom the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (science fiction, affective dreaming) Inquire if you need further information.
Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven to cart. $375.00, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Very Good in Missing jacket. BCE with the B44 in the gutter of page 184. Inscribed by Le Guin on the title page. Text unmarked. Previous owner name stamped on the FFEP. No dust jacket. 8vo. 185pp.
Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven to cart. $750.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Very Good. First edition, first printing with A-10.71 (C) on copyright page. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with price intact. Several water drops to blue topstain and blue spine cloth, resulting in some light bleeding to book and jacket. Dulling to gilt stamping. Dust jacket shows several edge tears and a chip missing from the rear panel. A nice copy of Le Guin's sixth book, which was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven to cart. $16,000.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on the title page. Near Fine with light wear in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning and edge wear, light surface indentations. This Locus award-winning work was initially serialized in Amazing Stories magazine earlier the same year and was later adapted into the films of 1980 and 2002. Signed copies of the first printing are very scarce.
Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven to cart. $18,000.00, like new condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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First edition, first printing. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on the front free endpaper. [viii], 184 pp. Bound in publisher's green boards and blue cloth backstrip, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95). A superb copy. This Locus award-winning science fiction novel is set in a futuristic Portland, Oregon in 2002. It was initially serialized in Amazing Stories magazine earlier the same year and was later adapted into the films of 1980 and 2002.
It's hard to know what to say about this book that wasn't already said quite well in the editorial reviews in the next tab over, but I was sucked into this book immediately by its bizarre, nightmarish premise. George Orr is what any of us would become given the weight on his shoulders of responsibility, guilt, and fear of what his mind might dream up. On the other hand, while the reader might be tempted to condemn his psychiatrist for the egotism that leads him to use George as a tool, is it so hard to imagine that a person in his position would push the boundaries of the new power he wields? "The Lathe of Heaven," will make you think about responsibility, about the meaning of dreams, and about power relationships, particularly that between doctor and patient.