Cloudsplitter

russell banks

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.

Genres fictionhistorical fictioncivil warliteraturehistoricalnovelsliterary fictionamerican historywarthe united states of america

758 pages, Paperback

First published February 17,1998

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, anisfield-wolf book award, pen/faulkner award for fiction, audie award,

Places

kansas, harpers ferry west virginia, west virginia,

This edition

Format: 758 pages, Paperback
Published: January 27, 1999 by Ecco
ISBN: 9780060930868
ASIN: 0060930861
Language: English

Characters More characters

John Brown

John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a revolutionary abolitionist in the United States, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery for good. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed in...
Owen Brown

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