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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1 by M.T. Anderson

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Also by M.T. Anderson:

Nicked, August 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Fatal Throne, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Empire Of Gut And Bone, June 2011
Hardcover
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1, September 2006
Hardcover
Feed, March 2004
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1
M.T. Anderson

The Pox Party

Candlewick
September 2006
On Sale: September 12, 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 0763624020
EAN: 9780763624026
Hardcover
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It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons 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. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.

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