“A spellbinding tale, not the least of which concerns the depiction of hard, hard life in the 1840s and 1850s.”
—San Diego Union
“A fine novel.... This is fiction on a large scale, even more ambitious than the books Banks has written before, and the writer carries it off with strength and subtlety.”
—Newark Star-Ledger
“A beautiful and terrifying book.”
—Newsday
Also by Russell Banks
Rule of the Bone
The Sweet Hereafter
Affliction
Success Stories
Continental Drift
The Relation of My Imprisonment
Trailerpark
The Book of Jamaica
The New World
Hamilton Stark
Family Life
Searching for Survivors
Credits
Cover design © 1998 by Marc Cohen
Cover photograph courtesy of The Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena, Calif.
Copyright
CLOUDSPUTTER. Copyright © 1998 by Russell Banks.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Banks, Russell, 1940-
Cloudsplitter: a novel / Russell Banks.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-016860-9
I. Title.
PS3552.A49C57 1998 813’.54—dc21 97-22163
ISBN 0-06-093086-1 (pbk.)
EPub Edition © AUGUST 2011 ISBN: 9780062123183
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