Cloudsplitter

Awards:   Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award 1999
Author:   Russell Banks
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9780060930868


Pages:   768
Publication Date:   27 January 1999
Format:   Paperback
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  • Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award 1999

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"""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."

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Author:   Russell Banks
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   HarperPerennial
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780060930868


ISBN 10:   0060930861
Pages:   768
Publication Date:   27 January 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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"""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"


A huge and thunderously good book. -- Chicago Tribune It is surely the best novel, a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon. -- Time Highly entertaining...and 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 withthe hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country. -- Cornel West Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one ofthe best is Russell Banks. -- New York Times Book Review Russell Banks is a writer of extraordinary power. -- Boston Globe Only a fewcontemporary writers have the kind of vision one has come to expect from Russell Banks; one thinks of Robert Stone, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Didion, and perhaps William Kennedy and E. L. Doctorow. -- Houston Post 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


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Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.

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