Word: ursula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BEGINNING PLACE by Ursula K. Le Guin; Harper & Row; 183 pages...
...grass somewhere. Yet the green enticements of Eden die hard, especially among city folk who would not know a primrose from a petunia. The more man-made their environment, the more likely they are to dream of running for shade. In The Beginning Place, her 13th novel, Ursula Le Guin retells this story, one of the oldest in Western literature, in modern dress. She creates two postadolescents who are drowning in personal uncertainties and suburban sprawl and then gives them a place to hide. If this were all, her novel would stand as an uncommonly graceful fantasy-romance...