URSULA K. LE GUIN
Tuesday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Here again, following a memorable evening here last fall, is one of our very favorite people (and authors) in all of this, Ursula K. Le Guin. The recipient of countless honors, awards, and distinctions, she makes this visit from her Portland home as she has many times since 1985 (when we had just started presenting writers), for all manner and kinds of books. She is here tonight with her newest novel, Lavinia (Harcourt), a luminous fictional re-addressing of several of the books of Vergil's epic poem, The Aeneid. "Le Guin is famous for creating alternative worlds (as in Left Hand of Darkness), and she approaches Lavinia's world, from which Western civilization took its course, as unique and strange as any fantasy. It's a novel that deserves to be ranked with Robert Graves's I, Claudius." - Publishers Weekly. "Le Guin has researched this ancient world assiduously, and her measured, understated prose captures with equal skill the permutations of established ritual and ceremony and the sensations of the battlefield ... Arguably her best novel, and an altogether worthy companion to one of the Western world's greatest stories." - Kirkus Reviews.

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