a ISBN 0-06-0930861-

a Original cataloging agency

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number PS3552.A49

b Item number C57 1999

a Personal name Banks Russell

d Dates associated with a name 1940

a Title Cloudsplitter :

b Remainder of title a novel /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Russell Banks.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York, NY :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc HarperPerennial/HarperCollinsPublishers,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1999, c1998.

a Extent 758 p. ;

c Dimensions 25 cm.

a General note "Editors' choice, New York Times, book review"--Cover.

a Summary, etc 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.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Antislavery movements

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Abolitionists