Parable of the Sower A Novel |
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Author:
| Butler, Octavia E. |
Introduction by:
| Steinem, Gloria |
ISBN: | 978-1-60980-719-1 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2017 |
Publisher: | Seven Stories Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $24.00 |
Book Description:
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The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and a roaming band 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 eighteen-year-old black woman with the hereditary trait of 'hyperempathy' - which causes her to feel others' pain as her own - sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving...
More DescriptionThe time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and a roaming band 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 eighteen-year-old black woman with the hereditary trait 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.