Banks Russell  1940 <br/><br/>
Cloudsplitter :  a novel / 
Russell Banks. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York, NY :  HarperPerennial/HarperCollinsPublishers,  1999, c1998. 
 - 758 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Editors' choice, New York Times, book review"--Cover. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060930861  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Brown John 18001859 --Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Antislavery movements--Fiction<br/>Abolitionists--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Harpers Ferry W Va--History--John Brown's Raid 1859--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3552.A49