ISBN: 9780807006924 - kindred: gift edition (30 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. One of the 100 best novels ever published in English (The Guardian) One of the most consequential novels of the past 100 years (The Atlantic) One of the most essential books published in the U.S. since 1776 (Publishers Weekly)The New York Times best-selling authors time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our countrys lack of progress on racial reconciliationI lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.Danas torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowners plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whiteheads The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coatess The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fictions oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise (New York Times). "The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us-along with her Black female hero-through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. Reprint Edition. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2022. First (1st) Printing (full number line down to 1) of this Second (2nd) Reprint Edition from Beacon Press, following the publisher's first reprint edition in 2009. This edition adds a Critical Essay by Robert Crossley and a Select Bibliography. The novel was first published in 1979 by Doubleday. As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, quite tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is gray boards, color uniform throughout, with bright silver title and design to the front board, silver design repeated on the rear board, and bright silver title, etc., to the spine, unmarked decorative endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, and fully intact with the prices (US $27.95 Canada $36.95) intact on the front flap and on the rear panel. See the accompanying photos. 287, [i] pages. 5 1/2" x 8 3/8". A first person account of a young African-American woman who is repeatedly transported in time from her late 20th century Los Angeles home to an early 19th-century slave plantation near Easton, Maryland. The novel uses time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. The 2003 Rochester, New York's book of the year. ISBN 10 / ISBN 13: 0807006920 / 9780807006924.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - One of the 100 best novels ever published in English (The Guardian) One of the most consequential novels of the past 100 years (The Atlantic) One of the most essential books published in the U.S. since 1776 (Publishers Weekly)The New York Times best-selling author's time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country's lack of progress on racial reconciliation"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm."Dana's torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner's plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction's oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. "Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise" (New York Times).…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. One of the 100 best novels ever published in English (The Guardian) One of the most consequential novels of the past 100 years (The Atlantic) One of the most essential books published in the U.S. since 1776 (Publishers Weekly)The New York Times best-selling authors time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our countrys lack of progress on racial reconciliationI lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.Danas torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowners plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whiteheads The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coatess The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fictions oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise (New York Times). "The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us-along with her Black female hero-through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now"-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Condición: New. Octavia E. Butler (1947&ndash2006) is the New York Times best-selling author of many novels, including Dawn, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. She was the recipient of a MacArthur &ldquoGenius&rdquo Grant, a PEN West.

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