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Cloudsplitter

Cloudsplitter

by RussellBanks (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $18.46

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America's most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion. Now Owen tells John's story. This incredible novel recreates pre-Civil War America, when slavery was tearing the country apart, and tells of one man's passage from abolitionist to guerrilla fighter and, finally, martyr. Cloudsplitter is a dazzling, suspenseful, heartbreaking story filled with both intimate scenes of domestic life and chilling violence.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 688
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 20 Nov 2006
ISBN 10: 074758530X
ISBN 13: 9780747585305
Book Overview: Russell Banks is hailed as a foremost novelist of our times, and his books have been made into acclaimed films like The Sweet Hereafter Published for the first time by Bloomsbury alongside another backlist classic, Rule of the Bone

Media Reviews
'A splendid epic ... a marvellous book' Time Out 'A startling work of vision ... A great American novel' Independent 'It is surely his best novel, a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon' Time 'An utterly compelling story, a tragedy of near-classic proportions with extraordinary resonances' Financial Times
Author Bio
Russell Banks is the critically acclaimed author of Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter (the film by Atom Egoyan won the Grand Prix and International Critics Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival), Rule of the Bone, Continental Drift and The Darling, amongst others. A winner of numerous fellowships and prizes, he writes regularly for Vanity Fair, the New York Times Book Review, Esquire and Harper's. Russell Banks currently lives in upstate New York.