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Cloudsplitter

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by Russell Banks


  “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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