March

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English language

Published Feb. 9, 2009 by Penguin USA, Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-101-07921-8
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3 stars (7 reviews)

An extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history—by the author of the international bestseller Year of WondersFrom Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With"pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks’s place as a renowned author of historical fiction.

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March, by Geraldine Brooks, imagines the life of Mr. March, the father who is absent during Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. In this captivating back-story, which Brooks researched with loving care, Mr. March's character, based on A. Branson Alcott, takes center stage as a man whose views were most radical, at the time: he is a transcendentalist philosopher, educator, vegetarian, and fervent abolishionist who is actively involved with the underground railroad. In this novel, he is also presented as a cleric.

It is also about the pain--emotional, physical, and financial--inflicted by The Civil War. Many different stories have been written about this time period, and March adds yet another look into the motives and feelings of those people who struggled for a more perfect union for their country, as well as those who can't help being caught up in the conflict.

Specifically, this is the story of a man who …

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