The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner) The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)

The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner‪)‬

A Novel

    • 4.0 • 648 Ratings
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.


Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856--a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces--when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town--along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm.

Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay alive. Eventually Brown sweeps him into the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859--one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
August 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Arkady Hanko ,

This book is highly over-rated. It starts to exhibit a plot only in the last 20%of the story.

For younger folks, unfamiliar with the legacy of John Brown, this book might be impactful, but only if they trudge through a lot of not-so-great text. The characters and dialogue might make for a good movie script.

Hawktale ,

Want to read

But why can’t I purchase it with the real cover?

Embgj ,

Wonderful and complex

The complexity of the characters is deliciously humorous. A wonderful prism to re visit history.

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