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" The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste : "
Patricia Eakins.
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BL
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970605
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b724975
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| Main Entry
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Eakins, Patricia,1942-
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| Title & Author
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The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste : : father and mother, first and last : [a novel] /\ Patricia Eakins.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: New York University Press,, ©1999.
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1 online resource (xi, 249 pages)
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| ISBN
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058547933X
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: 9780585479330
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| Notes
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"Being a true account of the life and times of an African man of letters, a Son of Guinée born into bondage, whose ambitions were realized in STRANGE AND UNEXPECTED WAYS, yet who made his PEACE with several gods and established a REALM of Equality & Freedom & Bounty, in which no creature lives from another's labor."
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"Including the tribulations of bondage in the Sugar Isles, Pierre's escape from certain harm to his person, how he was marooned, his friends & religion, his true wife & fishy consorts, his children, born from his mouth like words, physics and metaphysics, cyclopedish histoire, flora, fauna, & mysteriosi, revenge and devotion, divinations, commonplace book."
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"New York University Press prize for fiction"--Cover.
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| Abstract
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A magic-realism novel on an 18th century slave in the Caribbean who becomes a philosopher, writing an encyclopedia on his race. After escaping by sea he lands on an island, is made pregnant by a mermaid and gives birth through his mouth to a quartet of philosofish.
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Savants (Savant syndrome), Fiction.
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Slavery-- West Indies, French, Fiction.
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Savants (Savant syndrome)
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Slavery.
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Lesser Antilles, West Indies, French.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3555.A424M37 1999eb
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