Cloudsplitter: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Banks, Russell

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060168609 ISBN 13 : 9780060168605

Editeur : Ecco, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Banks Russell

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter 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.

Revue de presse

"Banks gives us the life of an avenging angel, an Old Testament prophet, and a monomaniacal terrorist, all rolled up into a vivid characterization of John Brown." --TLS
"This is [the book] that will secure his name in the annals of American literature along with those of William Faulkner, William Styron, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison." --The Kitchener Record

"Masterly... a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon." --Time

"Finally, nearly a century and a half after Harpers Ferry, a mature novelist at the height of his powers has found the way into Brown. His portrait should become definitive... [A] bravura performance." --Publishers Weekly

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060168609
• ISBN 13: 9780060168605
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 768