Description
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.
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
About the Author
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.
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
Book Information
ISBN 9780747585305
Author Russell Banks
Format Paperback
Page Count 688
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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
About the Author
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.
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
Book Information
ISBN 9780747585305
Author Russell Banks
Format Paperback
Page Count 688
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
