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Synopsis
An experimental novel that urges readers to take a more active role by creating the parts of the story themselves. Le Guin provides pieces of the story, and, from those raw materials, the reader constructs the rest. Moreover, in "Always Coming Home", the beginning is arbitrary--there is a thematic center to the novel, and the narrative branches out in many directions from the center. It includes poems, plays, short stories, commentary, music, recipes, essays, and information about the fictional Kesh tribe in article-glossary format. This book is a multimedia product--including pictures, text, and a cassette featuring music and spoken word--and was created about ten years before CD-ROM technology filtered down to a mass audience.
Industry Reviews
"I think this started with doing a film of 'The Lathe of Heaven', and a little stage performance of a short story. I got interested in collaborating with artists who weren't writers, artists in different media....Collaborating has become a real pleasure in my life. A novelist isn't a performance artist....Sometimes it's really fun to be a ham and get on the stage with performance artists and to do something which exists as a performance only."
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