Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/childrens/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0004 407504 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/childrens/engine/rss.php:0 Bruce Olds - Free Library Land Online - Childrens https://childrens.library.land/ ru Bruce Olds - Free Library Land Online - Childrens DataLife Engine Raising Holy Hell https://childrens.library.land/bruce-olds/733585-raising_holy_hell.html https://childrens.library.land/bruce-olds/733585-raising_holy_hell.html Raising Holy Hell
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.]]> Thu, 06 Apr 1995 09:01:35 +0300 This Way Slaughter https://childrens.library.land/bruce-olds/161945-this_way_slaughter.html https://childrens.library.land/bruce-olds/161945-this_way_slaughter.html This Way Slaughter
This Way Slaughter, an original work of literary, biographical fiction about “the Voice of the Texas Revolution” and Commander of the Alamo, William Barret Travis, marks the first and only time that figure has received full-length treatment in a novel. Typically a character portrayed as a rather minor stick figure forfeit to a much larger, unthinkably violent and bloody drama, one overshadowed by more celebrated names like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Sam Houston, “Slaughter” places the 26-year-old attorney, schoolteacher, editor and diarist centerstage where he is subjected to relentlessly probing, yet empathic scrutiny. Here is “Buck” Travis, not as pop culture insists upon depicting him, but as a living, breathing, “walking around” human being, warts and all: Valorous to a fault, yet capable of the most bitter cynicism. Intellectually brilliant, yet a courtier of romance. A political firebrand with but a begrudging interest in politics. An unwilling warrior more interested in words than in weaponry who found himself reluctantly drafted into occupying an epic, history-making role for which he considered himself singularly ill-suited. In the end, what emerges in the course of the novel is an indelible, highly provocative portrait of a conflicted, fatalistic, yet duty-bound young man haunted by an unsavory past, pledged to an impossible present, and pursued by an inescapable future, one whose violent love affair with an even more violent Texas frontier, cost him his life. On another level, the novel is both a meditation on historical time, and the manner in which the interplay between fact and fiction determines the kinds of stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, about our past, and about how we choose to bequeath those stories to the future.]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:48:26 +0200