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01592aam a2200265 a 4500 001 E1A8B62AEC6911E7AF65C16E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171229012527 008 981218t19991999nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 98058147 020 $a 9780814722091 020 $a 0814722091 035 $a (OCoLC)40543046 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d DLC $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3555.A424 $b M37 1999 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 21 100 1 $a Eakins, Patricia, $d 1942- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88619983 245 14 $a The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste : $b father and mother, first and last : [a novel] / $c Patricia Eakins. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [1999] 300 $a xi, 249 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "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." 500 $a "Being a true account of the life and times of an African man of letters, a Son of GuineÌe 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." 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171229031326.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E1A8B62AEC6911E7AF65C16E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search