Cover of Searoad

Book 1994

Searoad

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Publisher
Harper Prism
Language
English
Published
1994
  • Fiction
  • Social life and customs
  • Seaside resorts
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Women
  • Biography
  • Celtic Christian saints
  • Fiction, general

In these stories, connected loosely but powerfully by their rugged Pacific Northwest setting, LeGuin portrays residents of a small Oregon shore town with sympathy and no sentiment. Many of the tales center around women drawn together in threes - mother, daughter, grandmother - by illness or death.