Always Coming Home

Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.

A First Note

xi

The Quail Song

1

(2)

Towards an Archaeology of the Future

3

(4)

Stone Telling, Part One

7

(36)

The Serpentine Codex

43

(3)

Chart of the Nine Houses

46

(4)

Where It Is

50

(3)

Pandora Worries about What She is Doing: The Pattern

53

(1)

Some Stories Told Aloud

54

(15)

Some Stories Told Aloud One Evening

54

(3)

Shahugoten

57

(3)

The Keeper

60

(3)

Dried Mice

63

(1)

Dira

64

(5)

Poems, First Section

69

(14)

How to Die in the Valley

83

(12)

Pandora Sitting by the Creek

95

(1)

Four Romantic Tales

96

(16)

The Miller

97

(1)

Lost

98

(5)

The Brave Man

103

(4)

At the Springs of Orlu

107

(5)

Poems, Second Section

112

(9)

Four Histories

121

(26)

Old Women Hating

121

(8)

A War with the Pig People

129

(5)

The Town of Chumo

134

(2)

The Trouble with the Cotton People

136

(11)

Pandora Worrying About What She is Doing: She Addresses the Reader with Agitation

147

(2)

Time and The City

149

(24)

The City

149

(5)

A Hole in the Air

154

(3)

Big Man and Little Man

157

(3)

Beginnings

160

(3)

Time in the Valley

163

(10)

Stone Telling, Part Two

173

(29)

Dramatic Works

202

(37)

A Note on the Valley Stage

202

(1)

The Wedding Night at Chukulmas

203

(10)

The Shouting Man, the Red Woman, and the Bears

213

(5)

Tabetupah

218

(3)

The Plumed Water

221

(5)

Chandi

226

(13)

Pandora, Worrying About What She is Doing, Finds a Way into the Valley Through the Scrub Oak

239

(3)

Dancing the Moon

242

(9)

Poems, Third Section

251

(12)

Eight Life Stories

263

(42)

The Train

265

(1)

She Listens

266

(1)

Junco

267

(4)

The Bright Void of the Wind

271

(2)

White Tree

273

(2)

The Third Child's Story

275

(5)

The Dog at the Door

280

(2)

The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-na

282

(23)

Some Brief Valley Texts

305

(9)

Pandora Converses with the Archivist of the Library of the Madrone Lodge at Wakwaha-Na

314

(4)

Dangerous People

318

(21)

A Note about the Novel

318

(1)

Chapter Two

319

(20)

Pandora Gently to the Gentle Reader

339

(1)

Stone Telling, Part Three

340

(47)

Messages Concerning the Condor

377

(4)

About a Meeting Concerning the Warriors

381

(6)

Poems, Fourth Section

387

(22)

From the People of the Houses of Earth in the Valley...

404

(5)

The Back of the Book

Long Names of Houses

409

(5)

Some of the Other People of the Valley

414

(10)

Animals of the Obsidian

414

(6)

Animals of the Blue Clay

420

(4)

Kinfolk

424

(6)

Lodges, Societies, Arts

430

(4)

What they Wore in the Valley

434

(3)

What they Ate

437

(7)

Kesh Musical Instruments

444

(6)

Maps

450

(4)

The World Dance

454

(8)

The Sun Dance

462

(7)

About the Train

469

(2)

Some Notes on Medical Practices

471

(7)

A Treatise on Practices

478

(2)

Playing

480

(3)

Some Generative Metaphors

483

(3)

Three Poems by Pandora

486

(2)

Living on the Coast, Energy, and Dancing

488

(5)

Love

493

(1)

Written Kesh

494

(5)

Alphabet and Pronunciation

496

(3)

The Modes of Earth and Sky

499

(1)

A Note and a Chart Concerning Narrative Modes

500

(2)

Spoken and Written Literature

502

(4)

Pandora no Longer Worrying

506

(3)

Glossary

509

(16)

Kesh Numbers

509

(16)

Stammersong

525

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