created a working society in exquisite detail. It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin - Roddy Doyle * THE TIMES *Īn extraordinary work. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781473228412 Number of pages: 336 Weight: 240 g Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm MEDIA REVIEWS
With powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world's influence on competition and co-operation, THE DISPOSSESSED is a true classic of the 20th century. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.' Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. It did not look important - even a child could climb it. ' Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER Anarres was conceived as a utopia by its founders, and Anarresti society rests entirely on the collective belief that their utopian. It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle As the story of The Dispossessed unfolds, Le Guinthrough her conflicted but hopeful protagonist, the Anarresti physicist Shevek highlights the ways in which utopia is a complex and perhaps unachievable ideal. 'A well told tale signifying a good deal one to be read again and again' THE TIMES One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle
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