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The Beginning Place

(1980)
(Threshold)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1981 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee)
1981 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (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: Young Adult Fantasy

Praise for this book

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


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