Parable of the sower / Octavia E. Butler ; introduction by Gloria Steinem.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781609807191
- ISBN: 1609807197
- Physical Description: 330 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©1993
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General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | 710L Lexile |
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Subject: | African Americans > Fiction. Twenty-first century > Fiction. California, Southern > Fiction. |
Genre: | Science fiction. |
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- 9 of 11 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cameron Public Library | SF BUT (Text) | 32311111199926 | Science Fiction | Long Overdue | 03/07/2024 |
Cass County Library-Bookmobile | F BUT 2019 (Text) | 0002205593680 | Display | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | F BUT 2019 (Text) | 0002205593672 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Crawford County Library-Steelville | F BUT (Text) | 33431000745404 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Festus Public Library | Fic Butler (Text) | 32017000080893 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | F SCIFAN BUTLER Octavia (Text) | 30061000246567 | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Checked out | 05/20/2024 |
Marshall Public Library | SF BUT (Text) | 33391000309575 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Neosho Newton - Neosho | BUTLER, OCTAVIA (Text) | 34162001523008 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Riverside Regional-Altenburg | SF BUT (Text) | 30000004336867 | Science Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
"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"--