Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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The graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, the follow-up to Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestsellerIn this graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation,the author portrays a searing vision of America’s future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher’s daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as afight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-07-08
Mått165 x 241 x 20 mm
Vikt776 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAbrams ComicArts
Antal sidor288
FörlagAbrams
IllustratörJohn Jennings, Damian Duffy
MedarbetareDamian Duffy
ISBN9781419754050

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Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was a renowned African American author who was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Since her death, sales of her books have increased enormously as the issues she addressed in her Afro-futuristic feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. Damian Duffy, author of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation and Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation,is a cartoonist, scholar, writer, and teacher. He holds a MS and PhD inlibrary and information sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is on faculty. John Jennings is the curator of the Megascope list and illustrator of the graphic-novel adaptations of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower. He is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside.