Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Ursula K. Le Guin. Harper Perennial, $12.5 (306pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097289-9

``Chronologically arranged, these 33 talks and essays and 17 reviews of books and films, dating from 1976 through 1987, eloquently record Le Guin's responses to ethical and political climates, the transforming effect of certain literary ideas and the changes of a supple, disciplined mind,'' reported PW. (Feb.)

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