Raising Holy Hell: A Novel
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, Bruce Old's <i>Raising Holy Hell</i> is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery.