{"product_id":"9781472281098-fledgling-1","title":"Fledgling","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOctavia E. Butler's extraordinary final novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The Octavia Butler novel for our times' \u003cb\u003eTHE ATLANTIC\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'My book of the year . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it' \u003cb\u003eJUNOT DÍAZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Shori heals, she realises that she isn't like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her - and those who want her dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' \u003cb\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' \u003cb\u003eGLORIA STEINEM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' \u003cb\u003eJUNOT DIAZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Octavia Butler was a visionary' \u003cb\u003eVIOLA DAVIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' \u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40515648454753,"sku":"9781472281098","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28392888.jpg?v=1722583550","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472281098-fledgling-1","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}