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Author Banks, Russell, 1940-2023.

Title Cloudsplitter : a novel / Russell Banks.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1999.
©1998
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1221134~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F BANKS    DUE 05-19-24
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Description 758 pages ; 25 cm
Note "Editors' choice, New York Times, book review"--Cover.
Summary A novel on John Brown, the slavery abolitionist, narrated by one of his 20 children. The narrator is his son Owen, who fought at his father's side and he tells the story in a series of letters to a biographer. Owen describes his father as a loving family man and provides insight into Brown's motives for becoming an abolitionist, including business failures.
Subject Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Fiction.
Antislavery movements -- Fiction.
Abolitionists -- Fiction.
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 -- Fiction.
ISBN 0060930861 (pbk.)
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