El lugar del comienzo
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788445070772 (8445070770)
Publish date: July 1990
Publisher: Minotauro
Pages no: 221
Edition language: Spanish
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Romance,
Sci Fi Fantasy,
Speculative Fiction,
Coming Of Age
Awhile back, Slate published an article denigrating the phenomenon of adults reading YA fiction. In my little black heart of hearts, I sort of agreed with it. Which isn't to say that all YA fiction is bad, or that people shouldn't read whatever the fuck they like to read, but I just fundamentally ...
A fairly inaccurate cover, a story that does read like a nearly first novel, it's not her best but it is early work by her and I prefer it to some of her later stuff. I'm going to have to read it again to see if I understand it properly. A fantasy romance now billed as a young adult book.
Not the best known of Le Guin's works & perhaps not a favorite of many but one of my favorites.
I don't know what to rate this one. After reading it several years ago, I remember disliking it imensely. To such an extent that I got rid of it afterwards (something I've not been compelled to do with any of her other novels).And yet, since then, this story has strayed back into my thoughts. I, unt...
Hugh is trapped in suburbia and a dead-end job by his mother's fear. Desperate for escape, he goes running one night and finds a gateway into an idyllically fresh world. The clean water and air, the lack of humans, makes him return to it again and again. But he's not the only one to have found th...