Paperback, 758 pages
Published Dec. 13, 1999 by Harper-perennial.
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.
A book that’s ostensibly about John Brown and his abolitionist work in antebellum America, but is really about a son’s relationship with his father, and the shadow that father casts on the family. Great, sad, book.
