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Parable of the sower / Octavia E. Butler ; with a new foreword from award-winning author N.K. Jemisin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781538732182 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 345 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Seven Stories Press edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2019]
- Copyright: ©1993
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| Subject: | African Americans > Fiction. Psychic ability > Fiction. Faith > Fiction. Twenty-first century > Fiction. California, Southern > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Butle | 31681010277994 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages." -- - Baker & Taylor
In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages. - Grand Central Pub
From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood.
Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathyâa debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.
Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.Includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin
Lauren's story continues in The Parable of the Talents.Â
"In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched."âThe New Yorker
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