{"product_id":"cloudsplitter-9780060930868","title":"Cloudsplitter","description":"\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\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanks, Russell:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRussell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626502066450,"sku":"9780060930868","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f5c3a9c-9ed3-4a52-bec8-7cebb6844092.jpg?v=1732660452","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cloudsplitter-9780060930868","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}