Research Catalog
The Good Lord Bird
- Title
- The Good Lord Bird / James McBride.
- Author
- McBride, James, 1957-
- Publication
- New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- 417 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Awards (note)
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2013
- Contents
- 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. -- Slave Deeds (Missouri). A real gunslinger ; Pie ; Sibonia ; Insurrection ; A terrible discovery ; Squeezed ; Busting out. -- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-1039
- ISBN
- 9781594486340
- 1594486344
- LCCN
- 2013004014
- 9781594486340
- OCLC
- 820123671
- Author
- McBride, James, 1957-
- Title
- The Good Lord Bird / James McBride.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2013
- Chronological Term
- 1859
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781594486340 52795
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-1039