Cloudsplitter: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Cloudsplitter: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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, brilliantlyplotted, 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Cloudsplitter: A Novel Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Russell Banks: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Cloudsplitter: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Upon waking this cold, gray morning from a troubled sleep, I realized for the hundredth time, but this time with deep conviction, that my words and behavior towards you were disrespectful, and rude and selfish as well.