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The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

by Dorothy Bryant
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
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The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

by Dorothy Bryant

Overview

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is part love story, part science fiction, at once Jungian myth and utopian allegory.

“Truly unforgettable!”—San Francisco Chronicle

The kin of Ata live only for the dream. Their work, their art, their love are designed in and by their dreams, and their only aim is to dream higher dreams. Into the world of Ata comes a desperate man, who is first subdued and then led on the spiritual journey that, sooner or later, all of us must make.

“A masterful novel . . . a beautiful, symbolic journey of the soul, the journey of a serious dreamer.”—Berkely Monthly

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679778431
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/25/1997
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dorothy Bryant's novels and plays use a variety of settings, from the allegorical island of The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You to her own San Francisco Bay Area (Ella Price's Journal, Miss Giardino, Confessions of Madame Psyche), revolutionary ninenteenth-century France (Dear Master), and South America (Anita, Anita). Her underlying theme is always the same: the struggle of the human spirit to know and become itself.

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I first encountered Dorothy Bryant’s incredible, incredibly strange novel The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You in college, where it was assigned reading for a class. Science fiction novels assigned in 100-level college courses are naturally going to be a bit more cerebral and a bit less rayguns-and-space battles, and this one is perhaps the ultimate example […]

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