Cloudsplitter
1998 novel by Russell Banks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cloudsplitter is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown.[1]
Author | Russell Banks |
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Cover artist | Marc Cohen |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Harper Flamingo |
Publication date | March 1998 |
Media type | Print (hard & paperback) |
Pages | 768 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
ISBN | 0-06-016860-9 (first edition, hardcover) |
OCLC | 37024178 |
813/.54 21 | |
LC Class | PS3552.A49 C57 1998 |
Preceded by | Rule of the Bone |
Followed by | Invisible Stranger |
The novel is narrated as a retrospective by John Brown's son, Owen Brown, from his hermitage in the San Gabriel Mountains of California. His reminiscences are triggered by the reception of an invitation from a Miss Mayo, assistant to Oswald Garrison Villard, then researching his book John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston, 1910).
The title of the book comes from a translation of the Iroquois word Tahawus, the name of the mountain—English name Mount Marcy—just beyond the Brown family estate. It is the highest mountain in New York State.
Until his death on January 7, 2023, Banks had lived for years in Keene, New York, near John Brown's Farm in North Elba, New York.[2]