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I like Russell Banks and this book in particular is on many recommended reading lists. I've had a copy at home for several years, but kept putting it off because of the length--700 pages. I am glad I finally read it though. It took a bit to get into it--the narrator has a rather dense "voice"--but what a story! It is a fictional account of the life of John Brown, the abolitionist, told from the perspective of one of his sons. It mentions Gerrit Smith often, another famous abolitionist who lived
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