{"product_id":"cloudsplitter-russell-banks-paperback","title":"Cloudsplitter -- Russell Banks, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, \u003cem\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/em\u003e is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, \u003cem\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Russell Banks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\/27\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.03\" H x 5.37\" L x 1.81\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780060930868\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51981807190315,"sku":"9780060930868","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780060930868_083b02da-4754-46fd-b7bb-85ea0a8e5233.jpg?v=1769736956","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/cloudsplitter-russell-banks-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}