There is a detailed and sensitive account of le Guin's work here:
http://www.sfra.org/Coyote/CoyoteHome.htm. The section on Tehanu is quite
strong, although you may want to skip some of the lengthy synopsis it kicks
off with.
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: Noble Mouse
> I've only reached the quartet, which I reread recently - the last
> (which I see is the first of the next trilogy) is amazing, I think -
> certainly "tells more than it says" is one way of saying it!
>
> A
>
> >Dom
> >
> >aside from having enjoyed the poem, I'd like tpo tell you that two
Earthsea
> >books came out last year: Tales from Earthsea, which also includes a
> >history from 'the archive' & The Other Wind, a novel. Concluding the
sexond
> >trilogy, in which the other story, of the women of Earthsea, & their
> >powers, gets told. Wonderful, especially the apparently plain style that
> >echoes folktales & tells more than it says...
> >
> >Doug
> >
> >Douglas Barbour
> >Department of English
> >University of Alberta
> >Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> >(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
> >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
> >
> >Cinder of the lexical drift.
> >
> > Susan Howe
>
>
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> Alison Croggon
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