Posted on 08/09/07
Fantasy in a bottle
POWERSBy Ursula K. Le Guin Harcourt, 502 pages, $21.95Fantasy writers are much concerned with the speculation "What if?"So, let's play. What if there were a writer who exhibited all the inventiveness of genre fantasy but played out the action with a cast of nuanced, gritty, convincing characters in a prose style that was as lean, distilled and rhythmical as poetry? What if there were a writer who could invite all those readers who duck at the mention of dragons into a fantasy world that was as compelling and familiar as any in realistic fiction? Speculate no more. That writer is Ursula K. Le Guin.
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