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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 hi...

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Main Author: Butler, Octavia E. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, c1979, 2003.
Edition:25th anniversary ed.
Series:Black women writers series.
Subjects:
African American women > Fiction.
Slaveholders > Fiction.
Time travel > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Slaves > Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Afrofuturist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction.
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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.
Physical Description:287 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284).
ISBN:9780807083697
0807083690
Author Notes:Science-fiction writer and novelist Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She earned as Associate of Arts degree from Pasadena City College in 1968 and later attended California State University and the University of California.

Her first novel, Patternmaster, was the first in a series about a society run by a group of telepaths who are mentally linked to one another. She explored the topics of race, poverty, politics, religion, and human nature in her works. She won a Hugo Award in 1984 for her short story Speech Sounds and a Hugo Award and Nebula Award in 1985 for her novella Bloodchild. She received a MacArthur Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The award pays $295,000 over a five-year period to creative people who push the boundaries of their fields. She died in Lake Forest Park, Washington on February 24, 2006 at the age of 58.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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