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The good lord bird / James McBride.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McBride, James, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, John, 1800-1859--Fiction.
- Brown, John.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Abolitionists--Fiction.
- Abolitionists.
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859--Fiction.
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.).
- Identity--Fiction.
- Runaways--Fiction.
- Brown, John,.
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859.
- Brown, John, 1800-1859.
- United States.
- West Virginia--Harpers Ferry.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction, American.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 458 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2014.
- Summary:
- Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town-with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry-whom Brown nicknames Little Onion-conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859-one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. --From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Part one. Free Deeds (Kansas). Meet the Lord
- Good lord bird
- Old man's army
- Massacre
- Nigger Bob
- Prisoner again
- Black Jack
- Bad omen
- Sign from God.
- Part two. Slave Deeds (Missouri). Real gunslinger
- Pie
- Sibonia
- Insurrection
- Terrible discovery
- Squeezed
- Busting out.
- Part three. Legend (Virginia). Rolling into history
- Meeting a great man
- Smelling like bear
- Rousing the hive
- Plan
- Spy
- Word
- Rail man
- Annie
- Things heaven sent
- Escape
- Attack
- Bowl of confusion
- Un-hiving the bees
- Last stand
- Getting gone.
- Notes:
- National Book Awards for Fiction, 2013
- ALA Black Caucus Award, 2014 (Fiction)
- ISBN:
- 1594632782
- 9781594632785
- 9781594633379
- 1594633371
- OCLC:
- 861479082
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