Raising Holy Hell
1997 Nominated

Raising Holy Hell

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

The story of John Brown, best remembered as a fanatical abolitionist during the period before the American Civil War. The author employs a provocative and wide-ranging collage of literary media and fictional devices as well as contrasting narrative voices, in order to present a multi-textured evocation of both a period and a person.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Bruce
Olds

Bruce Olds is the author of three novels: 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 Fiction, and The Moments Lost: A Midwest Pilgrim’s Progress, also a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Bruce Olds is the author of three novels: 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 Fiction, and The Moments Lost: A Midwest Pilgrim’s Progress, also a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co.

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