'A book that shifted my life... Epic,game-changing,moving and brilliant'VIOLA DAVIS on Wild Seed'A literary pioneer'VANITY FAIR on Octavia E. ButlerA PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK TWOThe baby's name is Mary,and her father is immortal.For thousands of years,Doro has pursued perfection,experimenting with humanity and seeking out rare - and powerful - talents. His finest creation is Mary,a young black woman who grows up on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles.Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like his previous experiments - dead,either by her own hand or his.What he doesn't suspect is that Mary is beginning to learn just how much power she wields. As she comes of age,Mary must harness her newfound abilities to challenge the ruthless man who controls her - and fight to free her people once and for all.
Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupISBN: 9781472281005Number of pages: 256Weight: 180 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 20 mm
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One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has hadButler's prose,always pared back to the bone,delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precisionA dark,compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story(Her) evocative,often troubling,novels explore far-reaching issues of race,sex,power and,ultimately,what it means to be humanNo novel I've read this year has felt as relevant,as gut-wrenching or as essential... If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter",someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand,and quicklyKindred is that rare magical artifact...the novel one returns to,again and againOne cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art(A) must-read novelEveryone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction,and Kindred is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to startThe immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's Kindred is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book,utterly absorbing,very well written,and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read,not because it's not good but because it's so goodA searing,caustic examination of bizarre and alien practices on the third planet from the sunOne of the most original,thought-provoking works examining race and identityImpossible to turn away from once you've devoured the first few pagesIf you haven't read Butler,you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can beButler's books are exceptionalFew writers in our field are so good at blending page-turners with philosophical questions so seamlessly
Octavia E. Butler
A visionary of dystopian speculative fiction,Octavia E Butler was an award-winning American novelist and short story writer.
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