Cloudsplitter : A Novel.
de Banks, Russell, 1940- [design, Marc Cohen, Joseph Rutt ; photo, Arturo Patten]
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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New York, NY : HarperFlamingo, 1998., 1998. Fine. 1st edition, 4th printing ; 758 pp. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0060168609 ; LCCN: 97-22163 ; OCLC: 37024178 ; LC: PS3552.A49; Dewey: 813/.54 ; "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." ; "In vain Thou strugglest to get free, I never will unloose my hold ; Art Thou the man that died for me? The secret of Thy love unfold : Wrestling, I will not let Thee go Till I Thy name, Thy nature know" ; white and grey cloth with gold lettering in photographic dustjacket ; FINE/FINE
Sinopsis
Cloudsplitter is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown. The novel is narrated as a retrospective by John Brown's son, Owen Brown, from his in the San Gabriel Mountains of California. His reminisences are triggered by the reception of an invitation from a Miss Mayo, assistant to Oswald Garrison Villard, then researching his book John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston, 1910).
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- Joseph Valles - Books
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- 3713
- Título
- Cloudsplitter : A Novel.
- Autor
- Banks, Russell, 1940- [design, Marc Cohen, Joseph Rutt ; photo, Arturo Patten]
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- New York, NY : HarperFlamingo, 1998.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Palabras clave
- john brown owen abolitionists abolition business bloody kansas antislavery civil war frederick douglass harriet tubman harper's ferry raid Aaron Stevens abolitionist amongst arms arrived asked barn believe Bible blood Border Ruffians boys brothers cabin c
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- Catalog 59 - Fiction;
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