Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower - Hardcover

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Parable of the Sower - Hardcover

Parable of the Sower - Hardcover

by Octavia E. Butler
$24.00
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Book Overview

A New York Times Book of the Year - Nebula Award nominee - Featuring an introduction by Gloria Steinem

From the pioneering New York Times bestselling science fiction author of Kindred.

The radically speculative odyssey of a young Black woman in a post-apocalyptic America and the community she cultivates despite the horrors of climate change and social inequality

The time is 2025. The place is California, where small, walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder.

When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18-year-old Black woman with the hereditary train of "hyperempathy"--which causes her to feel others' pain as her own--sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.
ISBN9781609807191
Author Octavia E. Butler
PublisherSeven Stories Press
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Octavia E. Butler

OCTAVIA E. BUTLERwas a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.

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