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Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

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About this work

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 to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

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Edition identifiers ISBN-13 9781472258229

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Slaves
  • African American women
  • Slaveholders
  • Slavery
  • Time travel
  • Literature
  • open_syllabus_project
  • Historical
  • Science Fiction
  • African American
  • Contemporary Women
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Paperback2018 · Headline Publishing Group
Edition2014 · Headline Publishing Group
Cover not cataloged
Extent
304 pages
Language
English
EAN-13
9781472214812
School & Library BindingFebruary 2004 · Tandem Library
Cover not cataloged
Language
English
ISBN-10
141762941X
EAN-13
9781417629411
Edition2003 · Beacon Press
Edition1988 · Beacon Press
E-book2008 · Beacon Press
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Extent
287 pages
Language
English
EAN-13
9780807083697, 9780807083703
Edition1979 · Doubleday
Cover not cataloged
Extent
264 pages
Language
English
ISBN-10
0385150598
Edition1988 · Beacon Press