Cloudsplitter
Author: Russell Banks
The cover of Russell Banks’s mountain-sized novel Cloudsplitter features an actual photo of Owen Brown, the son of John Brown — the hero of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” whose terrorist band murdered proponents of slavery in Kansas and attacked Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 on what he considered direct orders from God, helping spark the Civil War.A deeply researche….Read More
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