{"product_id":"changing-planes-book-ursula-k-le-guin-9780358380023","title":"Changing Planes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Short Story\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn these classic \"vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches\"\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning--and mystery--of being human.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she's found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a way to skip the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging planes--not airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existence--enables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth in a series of unforgettable allegorical tales. As \"Sita Dulip's Method\" spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. With \"the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour in this short story collection, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50269573415185,"sku":"CIN0358380022G","price":7.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983649116433,"sku":"NIN9780358380023","price":18.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51136872382737,"sku":"CIN0358380022VG","price":7.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51686853345553,"sku":"GOR012245306","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53378904588561,"sku":"CIN0358380022A","price":6.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0358380022.jpg?v=1785789915","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/changing-planes-book-ursula-k-le-guin-9780358380023","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}