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Le Guin’s most poetic novel unfolds in interconnected stories about women’s work and the lives of artists

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One of Ursula K. Le Guin's most realistic novels, Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand, which was first published in 1991, is also among her most inventive. Cast as a series of interconnected stories set in a small vacation town on the Oregon coast, it offers vivid and powerfully evocative portraits of the town's residents and the community they have built. Some have deep roots in the village, while others have come for just a weekend: but all are pilgrims subject to inexpressible longings. Le Guin’s response to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, this novel plumbs some of the deepest and most abiding themes in Le Guin's work, especially the relationships between mothers and daughters, the nature of women’s work, and the lives of artists.

Searoad Chronicles of Klatsand

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      Publisher Library of America
      Published 10 July 2025
      ISBN-13 9781598538311
      978-1598538311
      ISBN-10 1598538314
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Le Guin’s most poetic novel unfolds in interconnected stories about women’s work and the lives of artists

      Restored to print in paperback!

      One of Ursula K. Le Guin's most realistic novels, Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand, which was first published in 1991, is also among her most inventive. Cast as a series of interconnected stories set in a small vacation town on the Oregon coast, it offers vivid and powerfully evocative portraits of the town's residents and the community they have built. Some have deep roots in the village, while others have come for just a weekend: but all are pilgrims subject to inexpressible longings. Le Guin’s response to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, this novel plumbs some of the deepest and most abiding themes in Le Guin's work, especially the relationships between mothers and daughters, the nature of women’s work, and the lives of artists.

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