{"product_id":"conversations-with-ursula-k-le-guin-9781604730944","title":"Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversations with Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/em\u003e assembles interviews with the renowned science-fiction and fantasy author of \u003cem\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lathe of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eEarthsea\u003c\/em\u003e sequence of novels and stories. For nearly five decades, Le Guin (b. 1929) has enjoyed immense success--both critical and popular--in science fiction and fantasy. But she has also published well-received works in such genres as realistic fiction, poetry, children's literature, criticism, and translation. In the pieces collected here, Le Guin takes every interview not as an opportunity to recapitulate long-held views but as an occasion for in-depth intellectual discourse. In interviews spanning over twenty-five years of her literary career, including a previously unpublished piece conducted by the volume's editor, Le Guin talks about such diverse subjects as U.S. foreign policy, the history of architecture, the place of women and feminist consciousness in American literature, and the differences between science fiction and fantasy. Carl Freedman is professor of English at Louisiana State University and is the author of \u003cem\u003eCritical Theory and Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eGeorge Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50095290089815,"sku":"9781604730944","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781604730944.jpg?v=1740904763","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conversations-with-ursula-k-le-guin-9781604730944","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}