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Kindred / Octavia E. Butler.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Black women writers seriesPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, 2004Description: 287 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0807083690 (paperback)
  • 9780807083697 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54
LOC classification:
  • PS 3552 B986k 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
The River The Fire The Fall The Fight The Storm The Rope Reader's Guide Critical Essay
Summary: 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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 3552.B986k 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000163611

The River
The Fire
The Fall
The Fight
The Storm
The Rope
Reader's Guide
Critical Essay

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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.

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