DDC/MDS
813.54 |
Status
Checked out
Due 2/21/2024
Series
Publication
Grand Central Publishing (2019), Edition: Reprint, 368 pages
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"--
Subjects
Awards
Nebula Award (Nominee — Novel — 1994)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 1997)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1995)
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (Fiction — 1999)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1993-10-15
Physical description
368 p.; 8 inches
ISBN
1538732181 / 9781538732182