March: Pulitzer Prize Winner (A Novel)

Author: Brooks, Geraldine

Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 31-01-2006

Part Number: 9780143036661

Details: Product Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord.

From 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.
Review
"Brilliant...Geraldine Brooks' new novel, 
March, is a very great book....Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist's license."—Beth Kephart, 
Chicago Tribune

"A beautifully wrought story....Gripping....A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues."—Heller McAlpin, 
Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Honorable, elegant and true."—John Freeman, 
The Wall Street Journal

"Harrowing and moving...In her previous book, 
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks proved herself to be a wonderful novelist. 
March has all the same virtues...casting a spell that lasts much longer than the reading of it."—Karen Joy Fowler, 
The Washington Post World

"Wholly original...deeply engaging."—Ron Charles, 
The Christian Science Monitor

"Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet."—
The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased."—
The Economist
From the Back Cover
"A very great book... It breathes new life into the historical fiction genre [and] honors the best of the imagination."
—
Chicago Tribune

"A beautifully wrought story about how war dashes ideals, unhinges moral certainties and drives a wedge of bitter experience and unspeakable memories between husband and wife."
—
Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet."
—
The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased."
—
The Economist
About the Author
Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning 
March; the international bestsellers 
Caleb's Crossing, 
People of the Book, and 
Year of Wonders; and, most recently, 
The Secret Chord. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works 
Nine Parts of Desire and
 Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha's Vinyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.
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chapter one

Virginia Is a Hard Road

October 21, 1861
This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky. A dipping sun gilded and brazed each raveling edge as if the firmament were threaded through with precious filaments. I pause there to mop my aching eye, which will not stop tearing. The line I have set down is, perhaps, on the florid side of fine, but no matter: she is a gentle critic. My hand, which I note is flecked with traces of dried phlegm, has the tremor of exhaustion. Forgive my unlovely script, for an army on the march provides no tranquil place for reflection and correspondence. (I hope my dear young author is finding time amid all her many good works to make some use of my little den, and that her friendly rats will not grudge a short absence from her accustomed aerie.) And yet to sit here under the shelter of a great tree as the men make their cook fires and banter together provides a measure of peace. I write on the lap desk that you and the girls so thoughtfully provided me, and though I spilled my store of

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