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Il Kansas del 1856 è un campo di battaglia tra abolizionisti e schiavisti. La vita del giovane schiavo Henry Shackleford viene stravolta dall'arrivo in città del leggendario paladino abolizionista John Brown: quando una discussione tra il padrone di Henry e Brown si tramuta in uno scontro a fuoco, Henry è costretto a scappare insieme a Brown che, fin dal primo momento, lo scambia per una ragazza e lo considera il suo portafortuna. Henry, soprannominato "Cipollina", si troverà così a viaggiare attraverso gli Stati Uniti insanguinati dalla guerra per la "liberazione della gente di colore" nei panni di una donzella. Dapprima profondamente a disagio per questo scambio di genere, finirà per apprezzarne i vantaggi: non dover faticare, poter passare inosservato e non dover rischiare la vita in guerra. Dopotutto, come dice lo stesso Henry, la menzogna è l'unica strategia di sopravvivenza degli schiavi neri nei rapporti con i bianchi. Insieme a John Brown seguirà le reali tappe della sua vita, compreso lo storico raid di Harpers Ferry nel 1859, uno dei grandi catalizzatori della guerra civile.
- ISBN: 8893258056
- Casa Editrice: Fazi
- Pagine: 500
- Data di uscita: 11-02-2021
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****NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER**** “The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath 'em all, and his grey eyes fairly glowed. It was the first time I ever saw him smile free. A true sm Leggi tutto
Here’s what I knew prior to reading The Good Lord Bird : § That some guy in the history books named Brown tried to eradicate racial injustice.§ That this guy was not the same Brown who took on the Board of Education. He was from slavery days.§ That Harper’s Ferry was a place, not a boat. And something Leggi tutto
A real corker. The action is set around abolitionist John Brown's raid on the Harpers Ferry armory in 1859 , which helped precipitate the American Civil War (1861-65). Brown's plan was to steal tens of thousands of rifles from the sleepy, rural armory. With them he would arm fugitive slaves hiding in Leggi tutto
If Mark Twain and Mel Brooks had ever collaborated, they would have invented a comic character like Henry(etta) Shackleford, a light-skinned slave boy who is freed by the American Abolitionist John Brown and who passes as a girl for most of The Good Lord Bird. It is lucky for us that James McBride t Leggi tutto
As the Reader's Advisory Librarian in a library system, I read many, many books. There are only a few that I would truly consider to be works of lasting significance. This is one such book. In my reading I was struck with the story. For me, it started as a very entertaining recounting of Onion’s adve Leggi tutto
Well, I really did want to like this book a lot more than I did. After all, it won a National Book Award and got a rave from the NYT. Who am I to challenge that? And the ending packs a wallop, that's for sure. The problem is all the hills you have to climb to get there. "The Good Lord Bird" is a nove Leggi tutto
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