The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1: The Pox Party
Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young PeopleÆs Literature
Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young PeopleÆs Literature
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780763624026
Publish date: 12-09-2006
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Edition language: English
This was an amazing book in so many ways, I'm so glad I picked it up. I understand that it is classified as YA...but believe me, it would more than hold it's own in the adult section as well. There are 4 sections, most of the first, second and fourth are the "manuscripts of the boy Octavian", and th...
Oh, MT Anderson. I should really read more of your work, but some times your satire just doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried reading Burger Wuss three times, and can’t make it past the first handful of pages; I don’t know why it doesn’t work for me. But like the earlier Feed, The Astonishing Life of Oct...
Good enough that I may replace my paperback with a hardbound copy. Classified as young adult fiction (perhaps only because of its young adult protagonist) this first volume of Octavian Nothing reads a bit like Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, only interesting, coherent, and with a discernible plot and ch...
I don’t quite know what to make of this book. Here’s a quick summary: A young pregnant woman is captured in Africa and taken to America in the early days of settlement. Rather than making her a slave, however, both she and her son become the subjects of a long term experiment. The experiment is begu...
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