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Parable of the sower

Author: Octavia E Butler; N K Jemisin
Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. ©1993
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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." --
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Science fiction
Dystopias
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Octavia E Butler; N K Jemisin
ISBN: 9781538732182 1538732181 9780446675505 0446675504 0941423999 9780941423991
OCLC Number: 1097664792
Notes: First Grand Central Publishing edition, 2000 ; reissued 2019. Original copyright, ©1993.
"With a new foreword from award-winning author N.K. Jemison"--Cover.
Includes reading group guide.
Description: xii, 345 pages ; 21 cm
Responsibility: Octavia E. Butler.

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"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." --

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