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The Beginning Place

(1980)

(Threshold)

Awards
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book (nominee)

A magical place across a creek provides sanctuary for two young people in flight from the banality of their daily lives, until their paradise turns into a hell on Earth that threatens to destroy them.

Genre: Fantasy

Praise for this book

"Excitingly told...elegant parable. Mrs Le Guin is a magisterial imaginer." - John Updike

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