A savory, exotic and most satisfying feast.
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After reading The Hungry Girls, I was hungry for more of Patricia Eakins' works. The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste was a savory, exotic and most satisfying feast. It is a great pleasure to meet a mind of such imaginative brilliance, one which is able to cull from history, literature, science, myth, philosophy, religion and fantasy and create a tale of excitement, adventure, adversity, humor and humanity in which every line is a poetic gem. It brought to mind Rabelais, Borges, Heironymus Bosch but stands alone in its own originality. I loved this book and have recommended it to everyone I know who loves great literature. Brava, Patricia Eakins.
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This is a fierce, inventive, and powerful work.
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This is a fierce, inventive, and powerful work, filled to the brim with universal fable, allegory, and myth. Written in a prose/poetry style that positively sings, The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste takes readers on a nonstop roller coaster ride through the highs and lows of the human experience, most particularly the degredations of racism and slavery. Satirical sparks fly around every bend, reminding this reader of Gulliver's Travels and Candide. Yet the author's capacity to write richly, lyrically, and yes, brutally, make her novel truly incomparable. Read it!
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