Octavia E Butler

Broschiertes Buch

Fledgling

Beschreibung

Shori is a young amnesiac girl whose needs and abilities lead her to a shocking discovery: she is in fact a 53-year-old vampire, genetically modified to survive daylight. The sole survivor of a horrific slaughter, Shori must now struggle to rebuild her family and learn who would want--and still wants--to destroy her.

Autor

OCTAVIA E. BUTLERwas a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 129mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781538724583
• ISBN-10: 1538724588
• Artikelnr.: 63696151