Octavia E. Butler /

"Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan dep...

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Main Author: Canavan, Gerry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:Modern masters of science fiction.
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