Cloudsplitter Paperback - 1999
by Russell Banks
This brilliant recounting of the events surrounding John Brown's legendary raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry is a masterpiece of modern American storytelling.
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Upon waking this cold, gray morning from a troubled sleep, I realized for the hundredth time, but this time with deep conviction, that my words and behavior towards you were disrespectful, and rude and selfish as well.
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A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart. But within this broader scope, Russell Banks has given us a riveting, suspenseful, heartbreaking narrative filled with intimate scenes of domestic life, of violence and action in battle, of romance and familial life and death that make the reader feel in astonishing ways what it is like to be alive in that time.
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- Title Cloudsplitter
- Author Russell Banks
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 768
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-01-27
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780060930868 / 0060930861
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.37 x 1.81 in (20.40 x 13.64 x 4.60 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) - History - John
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97022163
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/2000, Page 1078
- New York Times, 02/07/1999, Page 24
- Newsweek, 03/17/2008, Page 14
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 01/01/1998, Page 39
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