the compass rose
first edition, 1983. out of print.
"by calling this book 'the compass rose' i hoped to
suggest that some pattern or coherence may be perceived in it, while indicating that the stories it contains tend to go off each in its own direction. they take place all over the map, including the margins. it is not even clear to me what the map is a map of. a mind, no doubt; presumably the author’s. but I expect there is more to it than that. one’s mind is never simply one’s own, even at birth, and ever less so as one lives, learns, loses, etc."
collection of twenty short stories first published in 1982. le guin won the locus award for best single author collection in 1983.
london: victor gollancz. isbn: 0-575-03229-4. 273 pages. 8x5". hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: gentle bumping to spine. near fine. jacket condition: unclipped(£7.95). fine. Item #1155
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