Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"--a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end?
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"Magical...lyrical...an uncommonly graceful fantasy-romance."--Time Magazine on The Beginning Place
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."--The Boston Globe on The Beginning Place
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"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."--The Boston Globe on The Beginning Place
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Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than three dozen books for children and adults. She was awarded a Newbery Honor for the second volume of the Earthsea Cycle, The Tombs of Atuan, and among her many other distinctions are the Margaret A. Edwards Award, a National Book Award, and five Nebula Awards. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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I found this book accidentally, a few years ago (as an adult) and read it based on my previous reading of the 'standard' Le Guin (read in college): "The Dispossesed" & "The Left Hand of Darkness".
This is a story of a young person growing up -or fighting against growing up in the conventional societal sense. I was rapidly taken in by the story and mesmerized, I could hardly put it down. Somehow this book touched my soul. Maybe because I also was once a grocery clerk... . It seems to be a polarizing book, some other reviewers were lukewarm or disliked it, I guess that makes it special if it can speak in different ways to different people. I recommend reading "The Beginning Place", and see for yourself.
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Fantasy Book opens my eyes!,
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In this book, Hugh is the main character. He is a 20 year old man who lives with his mom. His mom verbally abuses him. One day he gets mad and runs out and tumbles going through a gate. It transports him into another dimension. In the dimension, he learns what love is all about. He also finds a girl who is just like him. The girls world is in darkness and they need to kill a beast to help them. Will he survive or die trying? Read and find out.I did like this book because it relates to other realms. I love fantasy and this book contains a lot. It's a very good book although I would only recommend this book to 9th graders and up, because it does contain some sexual contents.
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Rich in imagery and compact in layered meanings,
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The Beginning Place appeals to those of us who have ever felt desperately the need to get away from the mundanities and fears in our lives. Le Guin is extraordinarily skillful in showing Hugh and Irene's search to break free of restraints and fears; and she does it with a very complicated yet compact metaphor for their maturation. The book is beautifully written, lyrical... it is literature for those science fiction/fantasy fanatics who have forgotten what good writing is really about. It begins with a modern world and rapidly takes you into the alternate reality world, about which you really learn only enough to wish there were more detail. It is a short book, but so full of meaning it's best read several times. One of my all-time favorites.
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Checker on Seven! and back between the checkstands unloading the wire carts, apples three for eighty-nine, pineapple chunks on special, half gallon of two percent, seventy-five, four, and one is five, thank you, from ten to six six days a week; and he was good at it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ain country, evening land, creek place, shelving rock, beginning place, paint factory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Checker on Seven! and back between the checkstands unloading the wire carts, apples three for eighty-nine, pineapple chunks on special, half gallon of two percent, seventy-five, four, and one is five, thank you, from ten to six six days a week; and he was good at it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ain country, evening land, creek place, shelving rock, beginning place, paint factory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Horn, High Step, Third River, Mountain Town, Oak Valley Road, Chelsea Gardens Avenue, Long Meadow, Pine View Place, Three Fountains, Hugh Rogers New!
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- The Tombs of Atuan (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 2) by Ursula K. Le Guin in Front Matter
- Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (Children's Literature and Culture) by Mike Cadden on 19 pages
- Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin on page 253, and Back Matter
- The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin in Front Matter
- Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons by Gardner Dozois on page 198
- Castle of Days by Gene Wolfe on page 374
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