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Kindred: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred: 25th Anniversary Edition Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies.

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana"s life will end, long before it has even begun.

Review:

"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb." The Washington Post Book World

Review:

"In Kindred Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible, and a balm for the unbearable. It is everything the literature of science fiction can be." Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins series

Review:

"Kindred is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now." Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Review:

"Truly terrifying....A book you'll find hard to put down." Essence

Review:

"Butler"s books are exceptional....She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre...real women caught in impossible situations." The Village Voice

Review:

"Octavia Butler is a writer who will be with us for a long, long time and Kindred is that rare magical artifact...the novel one returns to, again and again, through the years, to learn, to be humbled, and to be renewed." Harlan Ellison

Synopsis:

This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, is a classic work with "much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now" (Los Angeles Herald Examiner).

Synopsis:

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies< BR> < BR> Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana& #39; s life will end, long before it has even begun.< BR> < BR> & quot; In Kindred Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible, and a balm for the unbearable. It is everything the literature of science fiction can be.& quot; < BR> & mdash; Walter Mosley< BR> < BR> & quot; Kindred] is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now.& quot; < BR> & mdash; Los Angeles Herald Examiner< BR> < BR> & quot; Truly terrifying. . . . A book you& #39; ll find hard to put down.& quot; < BR> & #175; Essence< BR> < BR> & quot; Butler& #39; s books are exceptional. . . . She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . real women caught in impossible situations.& quot; < BR> & #175; The Village Voice< BR> < BR> & quot; Butler& #39; s literary craftsmanship is superb.& quot; & mdash; The Washington Post Book World

Synopsis:

'The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has even begun.

"In Kindred Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible, and a balm for the unbearable. It is everything the literature of science fiction can be."

—Walter Mosley

"[Kindred] is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now."

—Los Angeles Herald Examiner

"Truly terrifying. . . . A book you'll find hard to put down."

¯Essence

"Butler's books are exceptional. . . . She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . real women caught in impossible situations."

¯The Village Voice

"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb."—The Washington Post Book World'

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About the Author

'Octavia E. Butler is author of many novels, including Adulthood Rites and The Parable of the Sower. She is the winner of the Nebula Award and twice winner of the Hugo Award.'
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Liza, July 5, 2008 (view all comments by Liza)
Part science-fiction, part historical novel, Octavia E. Butler has her heroine, an African American woman living in 1976, time-travel to antebellum Maryland. A first person's account of slavery from a 20th century viewpoint. Facinating, I couldn't put it down.
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Joeseph, June 10, 2008 (view all comments by Joeseph)
Kindred shows us all how difficult it was to live in the antebellum south and how even more difficult it is to truly understand it from a slaves point of view. Octavia E. Butler takes us there.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780807083697
Author:
Butler, Octavia E.
Publisher:
Beacon Press
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Slavery
Subject:
Time travel
Subject:
Science / General
Subject:
Children's 12-Up - Literature - Classics
Copyright:
2004
Edition Number:
25
Edition Description:
Anniversary
Series:
Bluestreak
Publication Date:
February 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
- Up
Language:
English
Pages:
287
Dimensions:
7.82x5.98x.84 in. .76 lbs.
Age Level:
12-UP
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