num_pages: 576
description: A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloud Splitter 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, Cloud Splitter 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.
language: English
title: Cloudsplitter
titlecomplete: Cloudsplitter
characters: Owen Brown, John Brown
genres: Historical, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, American History, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Civil War
ratings_count: 4781
places: Kansas, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, West Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Abridged
publisher: Secker & Warburg