Format:
Book
Author:
Butler, Octavia E.
Title:
Kindred / Octavia E. Butler.
Edition:
25th anniverary ed.
Publisher, Date:
Boston : Beacon Press, ©2003.
Description:
287 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Series:
Black women writers series
Black women writers series.
Subjects:
African American women -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284).
Contents:
Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue -- Reader's guide: Critical essay -- Discussion questions.
LCCN:
2003062862
ISBN:
0807083690
9780807083109
0807083100
9780807083697
Other Number:
53021612
System Availability:
8
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
8
Control Number:
1001457
Call Number:
FICTION Butler ^Science Fiction
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1