The Lathe of Heaven : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
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Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: September 01, 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: August 14, 2003
Sales Rank: 1055701
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Product Description:
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams.
The Lathe of Heaven is a dark vision and a warning -- a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view of humanity, and the consequences of playing God.
Amazon.com Review:
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Newbery, the Pilgrim, the Tiptree, and citations by the American Library Association. She has written over a dozen highly regarded novels and story collections. Her SF masterworks are The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Dispossessed (1974), and The Lathe of Heaven (1971).
George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.
The Lathe of Heaven is set in the sort of worlds that one would associate with Philip K. Dick, but Ms. Le Guin's treatment of the material, her plot and characterization and concerns, are more akin to the humanistic, ethically engaged, psychologically nuanced fiction of Theodore Sturgeon. The Lathe of Heaven is an insightful and chilling examination of total power, of war and injustice and other age-old problems, of changing the world, of playing God. --Cynthia Ward
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- Still a classicRe-read the Lathe of Heaven after many years -- and it's still a classic. Great quote from Michael ... Read More
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- Not a book to be read before bedtimeA coworker recommended I read some of Le Guin's work, and with how many books I recommend, I feel generally ... Read More
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- Sci-fi with a humanistic purposeA someone who claims to not be a fan of sci-fi, Le Guin manages to keep me in the fold. Having read Walking ... Read More
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- Accessible, wide-ranging, and opens the doors to many new topics and genres. Very highly recommendedGeorge Orr has the ability to dream things into being, changing reality smoothly and seamlessly into what he ... Read More
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- Superlative conception; inadequate execution...Like its protagonist (Dr. Haber), this novel ultimately fails due to the paucity of imaginative means that are ... Read More
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