Purchase
A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton
Touchstone
April 2004
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Featuring: Clara Barton; Louisa May Alcott
368 pages
ISBN: 0743257502
EAN: 9780743257503
Paperback
Add to Wish List
Historical | Fiction
From childhood, Susan Gray and her cousin Louisa May Alcott
have shared a safe, insular world of outdoor adventures and
grand amateur theater -- a world that begins to evaporate
with the outbreak of the Civil War. Frustrated with sewing
uniforms and wrapping bandages, the two women journey to
Washington, D.C.'s Union Hospital to volunteer as nurses.
Nothing has prepared them for the horrors of this grueling
experience. There they meet the remarkable Clara Barton --
the legendary Angel of the Battlefield -- and she becomes
their idol and mentor. Soon one wounded soldier begins to
captivate and puzzle them all -- a man who claims to be a
blacksmith, but whose appearance and sharp intelligence
suggest he might not be who he says he is. Through the
Civil War and its chaotic aftermath to the apex of Louisa's
fame as the author of Little Women and Lincoln's appointment
of Clara to the job of finding and naming the war's missing
and dead, this novel is ultimately the story of friendship
between women -- women who broke the mold society set for
them, while still reckoning with betrayal, love, and
forgiveness.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy