Cloudsplitter

By Russell Banks

Subjects: fiction, West virginia, fiction, american fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, History, historical fiction, John Brown's Raid (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia : 1859) fast (OCoLC)fst01353470

Description: From book jacket: 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** vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in the a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.