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Title: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Author: BUTLER OCTAVIA E / DUFFY DAMIAN
Illustrator: JENNINGS JOHN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 10/01/2017
Imprint: ABRAMS
Price: $36.00
Publishing status: Active
“Everything the literature of science fiction can be.” –Walter Mosley “That rare magical artifact …the novel one returns to again and again.” –Harlan Ellison Kindred, Octavia Butler’s literary science-fiction masterpiece first published in 1979, tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and mysteriously transported from her home in 1970s California to the antebellum South. Dana moves between worlds: one in which she is a free woman and another where she is part of a complicated familial history on a southern plantation, forced to interact with and save the life of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of her ancestors. Frightening, compelling and richly detailed, Kindred takes an imagined yet unstinting look at our complicated social history. Adapted as a graphic novel by celebrated academics Damian Duffy and John Jennings with the full co-operation of the Butler estate, Kindred explores the violence, sexuality, loss of humanity and twisted relationships engendered by slavery, in a format that introduces the work to a new generation of readers.
ISBN: 9781419709470
Dimension: 241mm X 165mm
Pages: 240