Tod Robbins reviewed The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
This is a great novel
5 stars
Absolutely engaging, thrilling, and a hoot.
468 pages
English language
Published July 20, 2014 by Penguin Publishing Group.
Good Lord Bird
Emil reviewed The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
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5 stars
It’s a pretty fascinating piece of Historical Fiction set during Abolitionist John Brown’s Bleeding Kansas campaign, with the Harpers Ferry raid serving as the climax.
There is a very unique humor/satire in this book that I haven’t really seen before. Somewhat similar to a combo of Coen Brothers, Mark Twain, Spike Lee, and Tarantino. There is even a surprisingly large emphasis on gender expression and society’s expectations on such. Cw: heavy use of N-word.
markm reviewed The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
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3 stars
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.
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.
Subjects
- Fiction, historical
- Slaves, fiction
- West virginia, fiction