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THE GOOD LORD BIRD

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Michael Boatman

Fiction • 14.5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2013

James McBride’s witty, imaginative take on history has a hero as inventive as Huckleberry Finn and as comical as Little Big Man. After a church fire in the 1960s, a notebook is discovered. It turns out to be the remembrances of Henry Shackleford, a young slave who is mistaken for and passes as a girl in order to survive in Kansas in 1857. Michael Boatman gives an amazing performance as 10-year-old Henry/Henrietta recounts his time with abolitionist John Brown. Boatman takes us on a wild ride, giving an authentic ring to such real characters as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. He masterfully delivers McBride’s wonderful wordplay—from Henry’s wisecracking attitude to John Brown’s Bible-quoting orations. A great story. A great narration. Listening at its finest. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2013]

Trade Ed. • Penguin Audio • 2013

DD ISBN 9781101620991 $27.97

 

Library Ed. • Dreamscape • 2013

CD ISBN 9781624067105 $59.99 • Twelve CDs

DD ISBN 9781624067112 $79.99

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