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Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
561 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
3) The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel of the first rank, the kind of monumental work Italo Calvino called 'encyclopedic' in the way it sweeps up history into a comprehensible and deeply textured pattern." — The New York Times Book Review
Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows — the College of Lucidity,
...Author
Series
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Unabridged library ed.
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies, only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments.
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