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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	PS3552.A49 C57 1998		AVAILABLE

Author	Banks, Russell, 1940-2023
Title	Cloudsplitter : a novel / Russell Banks.
Edition	First edition.
OCLC	37024178
ISBN	0060168609
	9780060168605
Publisher	New York, NY : HarperFlamingo, [1998]
	�1998
Description	758 pages ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Fiction.
Other Subject heading/s	Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
LC Subject heading/s	Antislavery movements -- Fiction.
Other Subject heading/s	Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- �tats-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
LC Subject heading/s	Abolitionists -- Fiction.
	Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 -- Fiction.
Other Subject heading/s	Harpers Ferry (Virg.-Occ.) -- Histoire -- 1859 (Raid de John Brown) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Other Genre heading/s	Historical fiction.
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.

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