Changing Planes: Stories

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story - A New York Times Notable BookIn these "vivid,...
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Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Changing Planes: Stories by Le Guin, Ursula K.

Changing Planes: Stories

$36.20

Changing Planes: Stories

$36.20
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story - A New York Times Notable Book

In these "vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches" (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, The Little Prince, and Gulliver's Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning--and mystery--of being human.

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she's found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes.

Changing planes--not airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existence--enables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth. As "Sita Dulip's Method" spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. With "the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist" (USA Today), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.



Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780358380023
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 83005 / Changing Planes

About the Author
URSULA K. LE GUIN was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, and died in Portland, Oregon, in 2018. She published over sixty books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translation. She was the recipient of a National Book Award, six Hugo and five Nebula awards, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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