Cloudsplitter A Novel - LIBRARY EDITION Author:Russell Banks [Read by Pete Larkin] — Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its recreation 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... more » 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 was like to be alive in that time.« less