TY - BOOK AU - Butler,Octavia E. TI - Parable of the sower SN - 9781472263667 (pbk.) : AV - PS3552.U827 P37 2019 U1 - 813.6 23 KW - Alienation (Social psychology) KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Fiction N1 - Originally published: U.S.: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993; Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; UY; 4.6; 15; Quiz number: 238910 N2 - Set in a California where civilisation has all but broken down and poverty and unspeakable violence are the norm, this is a horrifying vision of what might be. Teenage Lauren knows there must be a better way to live and invents a new religion ER -