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Kindred (88 Edition)

by Octavia E. Butler

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ISBN10: 0807083054
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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. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic timetravel novel by an acclaimed African-American science fictionwriter.

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: Doug Holliday, January 1, 2013 (view all comments by Doug Holliday)
Octavia presented one of the most exciting and realistic sci-fi novels I have ever read. This powerful and up front presentation of slavery in the south demonstrated the horrors and cruelty thrust upon blacks sends a message of truth I had not known. I salute Ms. Butler for her candid and wonderful writing abilities.
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: Singlegal, April 17, 2006 (view all comments by Singlegal)
This novel is a well-crafted work of art. Butler takes hold of the reader from the first page and never lets go. A consummate storyteller, she creates complex, realistic characters with whom the reader can sympathize and identify. I totally enjoyed the book, and am now building my Octavia Butler library.

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ISBN:: 9780807083055
Introduction:: Crossley, Robert
Author:: Crossley, Robert
Author:: Butler, Octavia E.
Publisher:: Beacon Press
Location:: Boston :
Subject:: California
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Science Fiction - General
Subject:: Science fiction
Subject:: Women Authors
Subject:: Slavery
Subject:: Afro-American women
Subject:: American - African American & Black
Subject:: Time travel
Subject:: Slaveholders
Subject:: Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
Subject:: African-American women
Subject:: General Fiction
Edition Description:: PAPERBACK
Series:: Black Women Writers Series
Series Volume:: 786
Publication Date:: 19880915
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: xxvii, 264 p.
Dimensions:: 8.01x5.34x.74 in. .61 lbs.

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