An edition of Cloudsplitter (1998)
Cloudsplitter
A Novel
By Russell Banks
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11 Want to read1 Currently reading2 Have read
Publish Date
February 1, 1999
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Language
eng
Pages
763
Description:
From book jacket: 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** vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in the a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.