James McBride, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (359p) ISBN 978-1-59448-972-3
Escaped slaves, free blacks, slave-catchers and plantation owners weave a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in bestselling memoirist (The Color of Water
) McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre–Civil
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James McBride, Author Riverhead Hardcover $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57322-022-4
Writer and musician McBride recounts a telling conversation with his mother: ""Am I Black or White?"" ""You're a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!"" With the help of two remarkable African American husbands (James is the youngest...
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James McBride, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-57322-212-9
Following the huge critical and commercial success of his nonfiction memoir, The Color of Water, McBride offers a powerful and emotional novel of black American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of Italy around the village of St....
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James McBride. Riverhead, $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-59448-634-0
Musician and author McBride offers a fresh perspective on abolitionist firebrand John Brown in this novel disguised as the memoir of a slave boy who pretends to be a girl in order to escape pre–Civil War turmoil, only to find himself riding with...
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James McBride. Spiegel & Grau, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9350-9
McBride, mainly known for his bestselling 1995 memoir, The Color of Water, returns to nonfiction with an investigation into the life, times, and death of James Brown, the “hardest-working man in show business.” Though the soul singer’s musical...
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James McBride. Riverhead, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1669-3
Humming with invention and energy, the stories collected in McBride’s first fiction book since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird again affirm his storytelling gifts. In the opening story, “The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set,”...
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James McBride, read by multiple narrators. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-525-49796-7
Four talented actors bring to life the zany characters in the excellent audio edition of McBride’s story collection. In “The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set,” Arthur Morey conveys the apoplectic confusion of an antique toy salesman when a poor...
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James McBride, read by Dominic Hoffman. Random House Audio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 9 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-14-752276-4
McBride embarks on a biographical journey to explore the life of the hardest-working man in show business, even though the National Book Award–winning author admits up front that Brown remains a figure so enigmatic that newly discovered facts make...
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James McBride. Riverhead, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1672-3
McBride (The Good Lord Bird) delivers a sharply compassionate shaggy dog tale of a heavy drinking Baptist deacon who shoots a drug dealer and becomes a “walking dead man.” In the autumn of 1969, handyman and occasional baseball coach Deacon Cuffy...
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James McBride. Riverhead, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-42294-6
National Book Award winner McBride (Deacon King Kong) tells a vibrant tale of Chicken Hill, a working-class neighborhood of Jewish, Black, and European immigrant families in Pottstown, Pa., where the 1972 discovery of a human skeleton unearths...
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