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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party: Volume One: The Pox Party [Audiobook] [Unabridged] (Audio CD)

by M.T. Anderson (Author), Peter Francis James (Reader)

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Publisher: Listening Library (Audio); Unabridged edition (Jan 9 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739338625
ISBN-13: 978-0739338629
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 13 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 227 g

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Anderson is a master at taking popular culture iconography, epic and historic themes, and likable characters, adding his own twist, and creating stories that are unique. In this first of a projected two-part saga, narrator Peter Francis James puts flesh on a slave boy being raised by a philosophical cult in Colonial Boston. As Octavian grows, the harsh realities of being a black slave collide with the idealism of the social experiment in which he has been sheltered. Adapting Anderson's novel to audio necessitated leaving out the book's sketches, quill-pen jottings, and other visuals. But Peter Francis James's euphonic reading and smooth cadence add humanness to the uneasy story. This 2006 National Book Award winner is not a pleasant story to hear, but it will provoke deep thinking and expand the listener's horizons. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother–a princess in exile from a faraway land–are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, 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–and his own chilling role in them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling and shocking, Feb 13 2009

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This review is from: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (Paperback)

I was juste amazed and so interested by this book. I could not put it down (both volumes).
It gave me such an understanding on the roots of the american culure, of the battles beween american freedom and british culture, of the principles and rigidity of the religious principles..etc. I am a French canadian from Montreal and since we will have the 200th anniversary of the battle in QUebec where the French lost against those english armies. I can really better understand how our culture came to be so far apart and why we have so much problem with our english here, which were the more conservative americans, those who did not want to be free.
But aside from political issues this is a fascinating book, very well written. The philosophical comparison with the roman battles is something. One can measure the giant step which was made since then to put Obama president.

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