Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin

Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin

Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill.

In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.

Includes a reader's guide and a sample chapter from the companion title Voices.

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ISBN 13	9780152051235
ISBN 10	0152051236
Title	Gifts
Author	Ursula K Le Guin
Series	Annals Of The Western Shore
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2004-09-01
Number of pages	274
Prizes	Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Silver) 2004, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2005, Short-listed for Locus Awards (Young Adult) 2005, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2006
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