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Cloudsplitter : A Novel by Russell Banks HC/DJ 1st Ed. 1998 SIGNED
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Signed By
- Russell Banks
- Era
- 1990s
- Signed
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, signed
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780060168605
- Book Title
- Cloudsplitter : a Novel
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary, Historical
- Item Weight
- 38.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 768 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060168609
ISBN-13
9780060168605
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1258416
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cloudsplitter : a Novel
Number of Pages
768 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
General, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
38.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-022163
Reviews
"It is surely his best novel, a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon." -- Time "A huge and thunderously good book." -- Chicago Tribune "Deeply affecting...Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief." -- New York Times "Russell Banks's remarkable Cloudsplitter brings Brown back to life, not to teach history, but as the narrator of a morally questioning novel about fathers and sons and fanaticism and how madness is measured when the sane have fled." -- USA Today "Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country." -- Cornel West "Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks." -- New York Times Book Review "Russell Banks is a writer of extraordinary power." -- Boston Globe "Russell Banks's work presents without falsehood and with a tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time. You find the craziness of false dreams, the political inequalities, and somehow the sliver of redemption. I trust his portrait of America more than any other--the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it." -- Michael Ondaatje
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
"Deeply affecting. . . . Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief." -- New York Times 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., Russell Banks's gift for creating compelling stories populated by gritty and startlingly real characters has resulted in such acclaimed masterworks as Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, and his most recent bestseller, Rule of the Bone. Now Banks takes on one of American history's most misunderstood figures, John Brown, whose October 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, crossed the line from civil protest to armed struggle, prefiguring the greatest conflagration in this country's history. Narrated by the enigmatic abolitionist's son Owen, the novel dazzlingly re-creates the fractured political and social landscape of pre-Civil War America, when slavery and talk of secession were tearing the country apart. But Cloudsplitter is about much more than one man's quest for political change and social justice. It is a moving and powerfully told story of fathers and sons, of racial conflict and division, as well as an intimate portrait of 19th-century family life. Rich in incident and exquisite detail, Cloudsplitter is the novel that will elevate Russell Banks to the highest rank of 20th-century American authors.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.A49C57 1998
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