The Beginning Place
by Ursula K Le Guin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 006012573X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060125738
- Seller
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Cheverie, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
A fine book club hardcover edition in a near fine dust jacket, no remainder marks. Bindings are tight and straight. SOme light wear to dustj acket spine edges. A very nice collectable copy
Synopsis
The Beginning Place is a short novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, written in 1980. It was subsequently published under the title Threshold in 1986. The novel does not belong to any of the cycles for which Le Guin is well known. The story's genre is a mixture of realism and fantasy literature. The novel's epigraph "What river is this through which the Ganges flows?" is quoted from Jorge Luis Borges who is known for his works of magical realism.
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- Seller
- JMC BOOKS (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5712
- Title
- The Beginning Place
- Author
- Ursula K Le Guin
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book club edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 006012573X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060125738
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
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