Paperback, 768 pages
English language
Published Feb. 1, 1999 by Harper Perennial.
3 stars
(1 review)
From book jacket: 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 vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in the a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.
Subjects
- Historical fiction
- Historical - General
- Fiction
- Fiction - Historical
- Literary
- History
- Fiction / General
- Reading Group Guide
- Brown, John,
- 1800-1859
- Brown, John
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
- John Brown's Raid, 1859