{"product_id":"searoad","title":"Searoad","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A vision of multiplicity and endless change and continuity' Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Rich, warm, and as easy on the soul as an afternoon on the beach' Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearoad is a sandy track that runs between the town of Klatsand and the rugged Oregon coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross this stretch, locals with roots in the town overlap with visitors staying in its run-down motels: a man questions his wife's desire to be a poet; a summering librarian indulges in an affair; a waitress recalls the shooting of her teenage daughter by her own husband. And always, women walk on the long, long beach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as the narrative shifts from the horizontal present to the vertical past, a four-generation chain of mothers and daughters reaches back to Klatsand's beginnings - and forward to its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Searoad, trailblazing feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin paints a vivid and powerfully evocative portrait of a small community built over the course of a century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ADS Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48563665961183,"sku":"9781399631686","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781399631686.jpg?v=1772616355","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/searoad","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}