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Gifts
by Le Guin, Ursula K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1842551078
- ISBN 13
- 9781842551073
- Seller
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Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Orion, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition (UK). Firm bound and carefully read. Both book & unclipped jacket are in VG clean condition. with some light dust spotting to the top edge. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. .
Synopsis
Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill. In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.
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- Bookseller
- Dandy Lion Editions
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031237
- Title
- Gifts
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition (UK)
- ISBN 10
- 1842551078
- ISBN 13
- 9781842551073
- Publisher
- Orion
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- fiction, fantasy, sci_fi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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