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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: Apr 2000
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - General
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 242
'A wicked book. Dystopian, weird, comedic.'-Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter
'Terrific.'-Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil
Both a coming-of-age story and a political fable, Carol Emshwiller's novel looks at what it means to be human. Charley, a boy raised to serve an alien master, must choose between comfort and freedom, vengeance and a new future.