Parable of the Sower (Parable, 1)

by Octavia E. Butler

Paperback, 2019

Status

Overdue—patron notified

Call number

813.54 B

Publication

Grand Central Publishing (2019), Edition: Reprint, 368 pages

Barcode

A 2682

Description

"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. 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"--

ISBN

1538732181 / 9781538732182

Original publication date

1993-10-15

Genres

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