Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Genre,
Pages,
Binding,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Butler
Author First Name:
Octavia
Genre:
SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
Pages:
332
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 10:
1609807197
ISBN 13:
9781609807191
Condition:
New
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Date Published:
2016-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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"--
