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Parable of the talents : a novel
- Title
- Parable of the talents : a novel / Octavia E. Butler.
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Publication
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [1998]
- ©1998
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 99-66 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 06-452 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 365 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- A Christian fundamentalist group kidnaps children to raise them in Christian homes in this tale of religious intolerance in a future America. The story is told by a woman at the receiving end of their zeal, the founder of a religion which they consider heathen. By the author of Parable of the Sower.
- "Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter--from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life--with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet."--Amazon
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Note
- Sequel to: Parable of the sower.
- Call Number
- Sc E 99-66
- ISBN
- 1888363819
- 9781888363814
- 0888363819 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 98035863
- OCLC
- 39478160
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Title
- Parable of the talents : a novel / Octavia E. Butler.
- Publisher
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [1998]
- Copyright Date
- ©1998
- Edition
- A Seven Stories Press first edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 99-66JFC 06-452