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.Binding Type: PaperbackPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 01/27/1999ISBN: 9780060930868Pages: 768Weight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.37w x 1.81dAward: PEN/Faulkner Award - NomineeReview Citations: New York Times 02/07/1999 pg. 24New York Times 06/06/1999 pg. 52Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 39Booklist 02/15/2000 pg. 1078Booklist 04/01/2000 pg. 1442Newsweek 03/17/2008 pg. 14Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 42957 / CloudsplitterReading Level: 8.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 48
