MT Anderson - "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing" Book Discussion & Signing February 8, 2008

It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. As the boy's regal mother entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments — and his own chilling role in them.

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