Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Hardcover)
Description
The follow-up to #1 New York Times BestsellerKindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E. Butlers groundbreaking dystopian novel
In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butlers Parable of the Sowerby Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of Americas future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preachers 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 a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
About the Author
Octavia E. Butler (19472006) 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, is a cartoonist, scholar, writer, and teacher. He holds a MS and PhD in library and information sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where he is on faculty.
John Jennings, illustrator of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California at Riverside.
Praise For…
the graphic novel is faithful to Butler, yet still fresh in its world building.
USA Today
alarminglyprescient and relevantThis accessible adaptation is poised to introduce Butlers dystopian tale to a new generation of readers.
Publishers Weekly
Jennings work in the book is beyond stunning
The Beat
TheParable of the Sowergraphic novel is as faithful an adaptation as you can get. Not only does it hit all the plot points, it perfectly portrays Butlers balancing act in regard to how far society has fallen apart.
Kirkus
Duffy and Jennings have done justice to Butlers work, losing none of the storys richness and adding an exciting visual element that makes the reading experience even more visceral and engrossing.
Forward Reviews, STARRED review
John Jenningss work succeedsas sequential storytelling and approaches the level of iconography regularly.
The Believer
Jennings and Duffy are some of the most skilled and hardest working comics creators doing the work to radically transform and diversify the comics scene.
Comicosity
Jennings has captured [Butlers] words with visual imagery in such an afrofuturistic, horror-esque way that the images jump off the page with every turn.
Flickering Myth
