Editing Cloudsplitter (section)

==Reception==
The novel was reviewed positively in a number of places:

* "Russell Banks has created in ''Cloudsplitter'' an immediate landmark in American fiction"<ref>{{cite web | title=Book Page Fiction Review: Cloudsplitter | last=Flowers | first=Charles | website=Book Page Fiction Reviews | url=http://www.bookpage.com/9803bp/fiction/cloudsplitter.html | year=1998 | accessdate=2007-02-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125024728/http://www.bookpage.com/9803bp/fiction/cloudsplitter.html | archive-date=2006-11-25 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* "Masterly&nbsp;... a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon." ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (quoted in:)<ref>{{cite web|title=Russell Banks New York State Author 2004-2006 |website=New York State Writers Institute|publisher=SUNY-Albany |url=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/banksr.html |accessdate=2007-02-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209003222/http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/banksr.html |archivedate=2007-02-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* "...&nbsp;a novel of near-biblical proportions about the abolitionist freedom fighter John Brown, is shaped like an explosive with an exceedingly long and winding fuse."<ref>{{cite news | title=The Wages of Righteousness| last=Kirn | first=Walter | work=[[The New York Times]]| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/22/books/the-wages-of-righteousness.html | date= 1998-02-22| accessdate=2007-02-15 }}</ref>

In 2011, ''[[The Guardian]]'s'' [[Tom Cox (writer)|Tom Cox]] selected ''Cloudsplitter'' as one of his "overlooked classics of American literature".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/10/classic-american-literature-russell-banks-cloudsplitter|title=Overlooked classics of American literature: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks|work=The Guardian|first=Tom|last=Cox|date=10 November 2011|accessdate=15 June 2013}}</ref>