Highcastle: A Remembrance

by Stanisław Lem

Book Overview

A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.With Highcastle, Stanislaw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151402183
• ISBN13: 9780151402182
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A favorite for the bedside

Stanislaw Lem's writing is beautiful in this brief work. Fans of his science fiction will surely want to read this to get behind the artifice and learn about the writer. But those who are not familiar with his work will also enjoy this as a meditation on memory, growing up in Poland, and this writer's power to evoke meaning. I read it mostly before falling asleep and it gave me wonderful dreams.