Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories
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New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2020].
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xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2020
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2020].
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"This first volume in the Library of America edition of Butler’s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre–Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays—including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butler’s life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler’s friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction"--Page [4] of cover.
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"This first volume in the Library of America edition of Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays-including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butler's life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler's friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction"--Page [4] of cover.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Butler, O. E., Canavan, G., & Shawl, N. (2020). Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories . Library of America.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Butler, Octavia E, Gerry, Canavan and Nisi, Shawl. 2020. Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Library of America.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Butler, Octavia E, Gerry, Canavan and Nisi, Shawl. Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories Library of America, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Butler, Octavia E., Gerry Canavan, and Nisi Shawl. Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories Library of America, 2020.

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