The Resource Parable of the sower, Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the sower, Octavia E. Butler
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Resource Information
The item Parable of the sower, Octavia E. Butler represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Peabody Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death, Lauren Olamina, an empath and the daughter of a minister, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny...and the birth of a new faith, as Lauren becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a revoltionary idea christened "Earthseed"
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Grand Central Publishing Edition.
- Extent
- 345 pages (softcover)
- Note
-
- Book 1 of the Parable Books series (series numeration from NoveList)
- Includes Reading Group Guide (pages [331]-345)
- Isbn
- 9780446675505
- Label
- Parable of the sower
- Title
- Parable of the sower
- Statement of responsibility
- Octavia E. Butler
- Subject
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- trueAfrican American women
- trueAfrican American mothers and daughters
- African Americans -- Fiction
- trueAfrofuturism and afrofantasy
- trueCalifornia
- California, Southern -- Fiction
- trueDiary novels
- trueDisasters
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- trueDystopias
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- truePost-apocalypse
- trueQuests
- trueReligion
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- trueScience fiction classics
- trueSocial science fiction
- Twenty-first century -- Fiction
- trueViolence
- trueWomen psychics
- true21st century -- 2001 -- 2100
- trueAfrican American fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death, Lauren Olamina, an empath and the daughter of a minister, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny...and the birth of a new faith, as Lauren becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a revoltionary idea christened "Earthseed"
- Summary
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 001166
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Butler, Octavia E.,
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 710L
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PS3552.U827
- LC item number
- P37 2000
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- Series statement
- Parable books
- Series volume
- Book 1]
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- Twenty-first century
- California, Southern
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Parable of the sower, Octavia E. Butler
- Note
-
- Book 1 of the Parable Books series (series numeration from NoveList)
- Includes Reading Group Guide (pages [331]-345)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19868390
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Grand Central Publishing Edition.
- Extent
- 345 pages (softcover)
- Isbn
- 9780446675505
- Lccn
- 99046567
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Label
- Parable of the sower, Octavia E. Butler
- Note
-
- Book 1 of the Parable Books series (series numeration from NoveList)
- Includes Reading Group Guide (pages [331]-345)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19868390
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Grand Central Publishing Edition.
- Extent
- 345 pages (softcover)
- Isbn
- 9780446675505
- Lccn
- 99046567
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
Subject
- trueAfrican American women
- trueAfrican American mothers and daughters
- African Americans -- Fiction
- trueAfrofuturism and afrofantasy
- trueCalifornia
- California, Southern -- Fiction
- trueDiary novels
- trueDisasters
- trueDystopian fiction
- trueDystopias
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- truePost-apocalypse
- trueQuests
- trueReligion
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- trueScience fiction classics
- trueSocial science fiction
- Twenty-first century -- Fiction
- trueViolence
- trueWomen psychics
- true21st century -- 2001 -- 2100
- trueAfrican American fiction
Genre
- trueDiary novels
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrofuturism and afrofantasy
- trueDystopian fiction
- Fiction
- trueScience fiction
- trueScience fiction classics
- trueSocial science fiction
Member of
Included in
- trueFor Fans of Black Panther
- trueClassic Science Fiction
- trueFor Fans of 1984
- trueRecommended by Jessica Lin
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