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| novels by russell banks | |
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''Cloudsplitter, A Novel'' (ISBN 0060930861) written by Russell Banks and published in 1998 by Harper/Collins Publishing is a Historical Novel relating of the story of Abolitionist John Brown . The novel is narrated as a retrospective by John Brown's son, in the California Mountain s. His reminisences are triggered by the reception of an invitation from a Miss Mayo, assistant to Oswald Garrison Villard . Villard was then researching his book ''John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After'' (Boston, 1910). Banks raises a number of tantalizing thematic questions during the lengthy portrayal of his subject matter. Notable among them are:
The narrative style employed by Banks is vividly Confession . And yet the reader is goaded into sympathy with these characters by their sheer persistence in the face of seemingly insurmountable daily travails - evoking the innocence of a new-born country. |
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