Good Lord Bird

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468 pages

English language

Published July 20, 2014 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-1-59463-278-5
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4 stars (17 reviews)

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A novelization of the "career" of John Brown as told by a cross-dressing African-American child in dialect. There might be a Samuel Clemens quality (as some reviewers claim). I was impressed by the author's use of adjectives for drunks and ne'er-do-wells, e.g. elbow benders and so forth; I didn't notice one repeated.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, historical
  • Slaves, fiction
  • West virginia, fiction