Gifts
by Le Guin, Ursula K
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0152051236
- ISBN 13
- 9780152051235
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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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
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 605712
- Title
- Gifts
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0152051236
- ISBN 13
- 9780152051235
- Publisher
- Harcourt Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- JUVENILE FICTION, FANTASY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction;
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