num_pages: 525
description: Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family. Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.
language: English
title: Always Coming Home
titlecomplete: Always Coming Home
genres: Classics, American, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Poetry, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction, Utopia
ratings_count: 3665
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: University of California Press, 2001