CLOUDSPLITTER By Russell Banks New York: HarperFlamingo, (1998). First edition, first printing. Neatly inscribed and SIGNED by the author! Fine in a fine dust jacket. "Banks? most ambitious novel is a fictionalization of the life of abolitionist John Brown, who led an 1859 slave revolt at Harpers Ferry and was executed shortly thereafter. Told from the perspective of Brown?s son Owen, the novel is Banks? attempt to work through his obsessions with the stains on American history, fathers and sons and the ?foolish, dreamy, sentimental celebrations? of Great Man narratives."--Los Angeles Times. No remainder mark! Octavo. 758 pages. Photographic endpapers. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!