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$39.95
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Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 0142800929
ISBN-13: 9780142800928
Mar 2005
Publisher: Viking Penguin Audio
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Geraldine Brooks takes a very minor character from Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN--Mr. March, the girls' preacher father--and makes him the main character in this Civil War novel, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Serving as a chaplain with the Union army, March becomes a teacher on a plantation, where he meets up with Grace, a woman slave he knew years ago. Tormented by the scenes of cruelty and suffering he witnesses--and the casual racism of nearly everyone he encounters--March struggles to keep his ideals intact. Brooks based her vibrant and well-researched portrait of March partly on Bronson Alcott, the New England transcendentalist and father of Louisa May.
| Size | | Height: | 6.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky."
Industry Reviews
"...Brooks's affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering."
Publishers Weekly (12/20/2004)
"Brooks combines her penchant for historical fiction with the literary-reinvention genre....The battle scenes are riveting...."
Kirkus (01/01/2005)
"[I]n March, Brooks dares to create a man of his times [and] allows him to be as self-righteous as might be expected of someone with his fervent, high-minded convictions....Nevertheless, the naive earnestness and ready affection with which Brooks endows him, the high standards he sets for himself, and his remarkable willingness to admit mistakes make him wonderfully likeable....Brooks's narrative is remarkably tight. Whereas much literary fiction wallows in digression, here every scrap of information propels the story forward."
Atlantic Monthly - Christina Schwarz (04/01/2005)
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