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The Good Lord Bird : a novel / James McBride.
LIBRA - Rare PS3613.C28 G66 2013b Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McBride, James, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, John, 1800-1859--Fiction.
- Brown, John.
- Brown, John, 1800-1859.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Abolitionists--Fiction.
- Abolitionists.
- United States.
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859--Fiction.
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.).
- West Virginia--Harpers Ferry.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 417 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Part I: Free Deeds (Kansas). Meet the Lord; The Good Lord Bird; The Old Man's Army; Massacre; Nigger Bob; Prisoner Again; Black Jack; A Bad Omen; A Sign from God
- Part II: Slave Deeds (Missouri). A Real Gunslinger; Pie; Sibonia; Insurrection; A Terrible Discovery; Squeezed; Busting Out
- Part III: Legend (Virginia). Rolling into History; Meeting a Great Man; Smelling Like Bear; Rousing the Hive; The Plan; The Spy; The Word; The Rail Man; Annie; The Things Heaven Sent; Escape; Attack; A Bowl of Confusion; Un-Hiving the Bees; Last Stand; Getting Gone.
- Notes:
- Book design by Michelle McMillian.
- Jacket design and illustration by Oliver Munday. Photograph of the author by Chia Messina.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1594486344
- 9781594486340
- OCLC:
- 859601293
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