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Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Voices, Paperback by Le Guin, Ursula K., ISBN 0152062424, ISBN-13 9780152062422, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100152062424
ISBN-139780152062422
eBay Product ID (ePID)63058215
Product Key Features
Book TitleVoices
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicFantasy & Magic, Dystopian, People & Places / United States / African American, General, Fantasy / Dark Fantasy
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
Book SeriesAnnals of the Western Shore Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience
LCCN2005-020753
Reviews* "While her prose is simple and unadorned, Le Guin's superior narrative voice and storytelling power make even small moments ring with truth, and often with beauty.", [star] "Le Guin's superior narrative voice and storytelling power make even small moments ring with truth, and often with beauty."--School Library Journal(starred), * (starred review) "Le Guin's latest pairs organically with its companion novelGifts,echoing themes of revenge, family legacies, personal morality, and a humanistic magic redolent more of earthly mysteries than flashy sorcery... The relevance of the slowly festering conflict between occupying and occupied cultures cannot be missed, and her understated writing flows as unstintingly as ever." --Booklist(August 2006), * (starred review) "While her prose is simple and unadorned, Le Guin's superior narrative voice and storytelling power make even small moments ring with truth, and often with beauty." --"School Library Journal" (August 2006, [star] "Le Guin's superior narrative voice and storytelling power make even small moments ring with truth, and often with beauty."-- School Library Journal (starred), [star] "Le Guin's superior narrative voice and storytelling power make even small moments ring with truth, and often with beauty."--School Library Journal (starred) --, * "Le Guin's latest pairs organically with its companion novel Gifts, echoing themes of revenge, family legacies, personal morality, and a humanistic magic redolent more of earthly mysteries than flashy sorcery... The relevance of the slowly festering conflict between occupying and occupied cultures cannot be missed, and her understated writing flows as unstintingly as ever.", * (starred review) "Le Guin's latest pairs organically with its companion novel "Gifts," echoing themes of revenge, family legacies, personal morality, and a humanistic magic redolent more of earthly mysteries than flashy sorcery... The relevance of the slowly festering conflict between occupying and occupied cultures cannot be missed, and her understated writing flows as unstintingly as ever." --"Booklist "(August 2006), * (starred review) "While her prose is simple and unadorned, Le Guin's superior narrative voice and storytelling power make even small moments ring with truth, and often with beauty." --School Library Journal(August 2006
Grade FromSeventh Grade
Series Volume Number2
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
SynopsisIn this second novel in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin brings readers a haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic. Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is a refuge, a place of family and learning, ritual and memory--the only place where she feels truly safe. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer's life begins to change. Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors? Voices is a novel that readers will not soon forget. "Le Guin's crystalline prose and her ability to dramatise political and spiritual issues of our time are unequalled." --Amanda Craig, London Times "As always, Le Guin's language is as airy and sensuous as her concerns are weighty and abstract, every sentence as precise as a spade cut." --Elizabeth Ward, The Washington Post " Barbarians-versus-brainiacs may be well-trod turf, but Le Guin sure-footedly makes it new. She creates a protagonist with obvious appeal to her intended audience: a geeky girl with bad hair but a quick intelligence, who nurses a seething contempt for the illiterate thugs who run everything." --Anne Boles Levy, Los Angeles Times The Annals of the Western Shore Trilogy includes: Gifts Voices Powers, Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is a refuge, a place of family and learning, ritual and memory--the only place where she feels truly safe. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer's life begins to change. Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors? A haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic, Voices is a novel that readers will not soon forget., Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is the only place where she feels truly safe. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer's life begins to change. Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors?" ""Includes an interview with the author and a teaser to the third book in the series, "Powers,"", In this second novel in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin brings readers a haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic. Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is a refuge, a place of family and learning, ritual and memory--the only place where she feels truly safe. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer's life begins to change. Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors? Voices is a novel that readers will not soon forget. "Le Guin's crystalline prose and her ability to dramatise political and spiritual issues of our time are unequalled." --Amanda Craig, London Times "As always, Le Guin's language is as airy and sensuous as her concerns are weighty and abstract, every sentence as precise as a spade cut." --Elizabeth Ward, The Washington Post "Barbarians-versus-brainiacs may be well-trod turf, but Le Guin sure-footedly makes it new. She creates a protagonist with obvious appeal to her intended audience: a geeky girl with bad hair but a quick intelligence, who nurses a seething contempt for the illiterate thugs who run everything." --Anne Boles Levy, Los Angeles Times The Annals of the Western Shore Trilogy includes: Gifts Voices Powers
LC Classification NumberPZ7.L5215Voi 2008
