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The Good Lord Bird is a 2013 novel written by James McBride. It is set during three years of the slave era South and is a work of progressive Americana in the vein of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Humorous in the manner of Mark Twain, The Good Lord Bird is a fictional story (though carefully shaded with real historical detail) about the abolitionist John Brown told through the eyes of a...
The Good Lord Bird is a 2013 novel by James McBride about Henry Shackleford, an enslaved person, who unites with John Brown in Brown's abolitionist mission. The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013 and received generally positive reviews from critics.
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The Good Lord Bird is a historical novel published by journalist, noted memoirist, and author James McBride in 2013. It is his third historical novel, and it was honored with the National Book Award. It is 417 pages long, and follows the experiences of a young African-American boy named Henry Shackleford as he travels with abolitionist John ...
Aug 23, 2013 · A manuscript, supposedly discovered after a church fire cleanup, offers the first person account of Henry, a young slave living in the Kansas Territories in 1857, as he becomes involved –...
ISBN-13: 9781594486340. Summary. From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung 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.