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Kindred / Octavia E. Butler ; [with an afterword by Robert Crossley].
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Butler Kindred
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Series:
- Black women writers series
- [Black women writers series]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Slaveholders--Fiction.
- Slaveholders.
- Time travel--Fiction.
- Time travel.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Fiction.
- Enslaved persons.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Southern States--Fiction.
- Southern States.
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- "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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun."--Jacket
- Contents:
- The River
- The Fire
- The Fall
- The Fight
- The Storm
- The Rope
- Reader's Guide
- Critical Essay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 18
- ISBN:
- 0807083690
- 9780807083697
- OCLC:
- 223604066
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/85/184
- http://www.aalbc.com/authors/octavia.htm
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