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Chargement... Raising Holy Hell: A Novelpar Bruce Olds
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Raising Holy Hell is unique. Bruce Olds tells John Brown's story from every direction. Quotations, mythology, folk tales, court transcripts, lists, poetry, diary entries, letters, interviews, Bible quotes, historical data, advice, agreements, and the perspectives of stepmother, father, first wife, second wife, eldest son, younger sons, daughters, neighbors, friends, Frederick Douglass, past Presidents, all piece together to tell not only the tale of Harper's Ferry, but of the biography of John Brown, the man. Perfect for someone with a short span of attention! ( ) A ground-breaking literary effort, Olds creates a fictional biography of John Brown. Using traditional prose, free verse and other variations on technique, he brings Brown to life as what he was: a devout and frightening man devoting his life and family to ending slavery. I've read Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, also about John Brown. Old's work is perhaps a third as long, but with at least the same impact. I skimmed parts of Cloudsplitter, but not Raising Holy Hell. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, "Raising Holy Hell" is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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