- Fiction, Fugitive slaves, Abolitionists, History
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.
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Grave, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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- Author
- James McBride
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 468
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio, Dreamscape Media
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606356572
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James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel *The Good Lord Bird*.
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