| Description |
xi, 249 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"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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"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." |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- West Indies, French -- Fiction.
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Savants (Savant syndrome) -- Fiction.
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Savants (Savant syndrome) (OCoLC)fst01105950
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Lesser Antilles -- West Indies, French.
(OCoLC)fst01243267
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Psychological fiction.
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| ISBN |
0814722091 (alk. paper) |
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9780814722091 (alk. paper) |
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