'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 to cart. $84.00, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Scribner Book Company.
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Good. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Front endpaper torn out of binding. Gutter code reads "B44" on page 184, indicating a first book club edition copy. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven to cart. $104.00, good condition, Sold by Found Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Scribners.
Add this copy of The Lathe of Heaven to cart. $195.00, very good condition, Sold by Collins Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Narrow dampstain to boards at foot, else crisp and unworn; interior clean and tight. Light wear a d short tear to jacket, small dampstain to jacket rear cover at foot. Very Good in Good jacket. 184pp. Octavo in boards over cloth spine.
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.
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.