Changing Planes

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9780544341685

<DIV><B>&ldquo;A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of <I>Gulliver&rsquo;s Travels</I>,&rdquo; from a narrator with &ldquo;the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>USA Today</I></B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> Hailed by Neil Gaiman as &ldquo;a master of the craft&rdquo; and Margaret Atwood as &ldquo;a quintessentially American writer,&rdquo; Ursula K. Le Guin is at her entertaining, thought-provoking best in this collection of ingeniously linked stories.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Missing a flight, waiting in an airport, listening to garbled announcements&mdash;who doesn&rsquo;t hate that misery? But Sita Dulip of Cincinnati finds a way to bypass the long lines, the crowded restrooms, the nasty food, the whimpering children and domineering parents, the bookless bookstores, the plastic chairs bolted to the floor.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> With a kind of twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than to describe, Sita travels not to Denver but to Strupsirts, a picturesque region of waterspouts and volcanoes. Or to Djeyo, where she can stay for two nights with a balcony overlooking the amber Sea of Somue. This new method of &ldquo;changing planes&rdquo; enables Sita to visit bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. and sometimes open doors into the thrillingly alien.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> A <I>New York Times</I> Notable Book and <I>Los Angeles Times</I> bestseller, featuring illustrations by Eric Beddows, <I>Changing Planes </I>is your boarding pass to fifteen worlds that are vintage Le Guin, from a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story.</DIV>