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Winner 2006 Pulitzer for Fiction
Viking
March 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0670033359
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction | Historical
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats
during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves
behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences
will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most
ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is
meticulously researched, March is an extraordinary
novel woven out of the lore of American history. From
Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women,
Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent
father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and
daughters to make do in mean times. To evoke him, Brooks
turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott,
Louisa May’s father—a friend and confidant of Ralph Waldo
Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In her telling, March
emerges as an idealistic chaplain in the little known
backwaters of a war that will test his faith in himself and
in the Union cause as he learns that his side, too, is
capable of acts of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from
a near mortal illness, he must reassemble his shattered
mind and body and find a way to reconnect with a wife and
daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been
through. Spanning the vibrant intellectual world of
Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, March
adds adult resonance to Alcott’s optimistic children’s tale
to portray the moral complexity of war, and a marriage
tested by the demands of extreme idealism—and by a
dangerous and illicit attraction. A lushly written, wholly
original tale steeped in the details of another time,
March secures Geraldine Brooks’s place as an
internationally renowned author of historical fiction.
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