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Cloudsplitter: A Novel Audiobook
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""Deeply affecting. . . . Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief."" — New York Times
A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is 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 is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart. But within this broader scope, Russell Banks has given us a riveting, suspenseful, heartbreaking narrative filled with intimate scenes of domestic life, of violence and action in battle, of romance and familial life and death that make the reader feel in astonishing ways what it is like to be alive in that time.
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“This book has all the stark beauty of the Adirondackssetting and of Brown’s religion…Like the works of Thomas Mallon and ThomasGifford, this is not just a fine novel (and a wonderfully structured one atthat) but a way to participate in history. Recommended, without hyperbole, forall collections.”
— Library Journal
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“It is surely the best novel, a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon.”
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“Highly entertaining…and deeply affecting…Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief.”
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“Russell Banks’ remarkable Cloudsplitter brings Brown back to life, not to teach history but as the narrator of a morally questioning novel about fathers and sons and fanaticism and how madness is measured when the sane have fled.”
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“A huge and thunderously good book.”
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“[One of the] overlooked classics of American literature.”
— Guardian (London)
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A 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
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Winner of the 1999 Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize
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A 1999 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction
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A New York Times Editor’s Choice
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About Russell Banks
Russell Banks (1940-2023), twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers. Two of his novels, The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction, have been made into award-winning films. He was a member of the International Parliament of Writers and former New York State Author and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He was a past president of the International Parliament of Writers. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature.
About Pete Larkin
Pete Larkin has narrated dozens of audiobook titles, won five Earphones Awards, and been a finalist in 2012 for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has been praised for his expert ability to speak in multiple accents. He is also an on-camera host and accomplished voice-over artist for hundreds of commercials and promos for a variety of companies, corporations, and governmental agencies. He was the public address announcer for the New York Mets and has worked as a radio jockey in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.