{"product_id":"changing-planes-stories","title":"Changing Planes: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Short Story \u003c\/strong\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003e A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn these \"vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches\" \u003c\/strong\u003e(\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e), literary legend Le Guin weaves together influences as wide\u003c\/strong\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003ereaching as Borges, \u003cem\u003eThe Little Prince, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels \u003c\/em\u003eto examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning--and mystery--of being human.\u003c\/strong\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, 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. 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\" (\u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Ursula K. Le Guin, Eric Beddows, Karen Joy Fowler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44440942510316,"sku":"9780358380023","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780358380023.jpg?v=1720763229","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/changing-planes-stories","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}