Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
This collection of mainstream stories, written from the early eighties to the mid-nineties, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin. Diffusing the traditional boundaries of realism, magical realism, and surrealism, Le Guin finds the detail that reveals the strange in everyday life, or the unexpected depths of an ordinary person. Written with wit, zest, and a passionate sense of human frailty and toughness, Unlocking the Air is superb fiction by a beloved storyteller at the height of her power.
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- ISBN-13
- 9780060928032
- Genre
- Topics
- Everyday life and human resilienceMagical realismOrdinary people's hidden depths
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1997)
Other awarded books from Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Dispossessed (2015)2 wins · 16 score
- The Left Hand of Darkness (2000)2 wins · 16 score
- Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (2004)2 wins · 15 score
- The Other Wind (2015)1 win · 15 score
- Lavinia (2009)1 win · 10 score
- Always Coming Home (1985)0 wins · 8 score
- Powers (2009)1 win · 8 score
- The Lathe of Heaven (1971)0 wins · 6 score
- The Telling (2010)1 win · 5 score
- Orsinian Tales (1976)0 wins · 4 score
- The Beginning Place (1980)0 wins · 4 score
- Changing Planes (2010)0 wins · 2 score
- Four Ways to Forgiveness (2011)0 wins · 2 score
- Malafrena (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- The Farthest Shore (2012)0 wins · 2 score
- The Tombs of Atuan (2001)0 wins · 2 score
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