No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters

Le Guin, Ursula K, and Fowler, Karen Joy (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 1328661598 / ISBN 13: 9781328661593

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Ma, 2017

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. HC 351.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Ma
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1328661598
• ISBN 13: 9781328661593
• Binding: Hard cover
• Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”

On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”

On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.”

Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula’s blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”

About the Author

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters. Her body of work includes twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award, along with a PEN/Malamud Award and many other accolades. In 2016 she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.