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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. Bucking the tiger, an american library association notable book adapted from the stage as the confessions of doc holliday, and raising holy hell, a pulitzer prize finalist and an impac dublin literary award nominee that was also named novel of the year by the notable books council of the ala and winner of the qpb new voices award for. Raising holy hell bruce olds macmillan macmillan publishers. With fabricated and fictionalized quotes, journal excerpts, newspaper. Olds gives a snap shot of just how horrible slavery was and why brown went to such. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, bruce olds 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.
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