CLOUSPLITTER PB – RUSSELL BANKS

Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America s most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion. Now Owen tells John s story. This incredible novel recreates pre-Civil War America, when slavery was tearing the country apart, and tells of one man s passage from abolitionist to guerrilla fighter and, finally, martyr. Cloudsplitter is a dazzling, suspenseful, heartbreaking story filled with both intimate scenes of domestic life and chilling violence.