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Brooks, Geraldine.
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Military chaplains -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Brooks, Geraldine.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Military chaplains -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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March
[sound recording] : a
novel
/ Geraldine Brooks.
by
Brooks, Geraldine.
Penguin Audio, p2005.
Call #:
COMPACT DISC FICTION BRO
Subjects
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Military chaplains -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0142800929
Format:
[sound recording] :
Edition:
Unabridged.
Description:
9 compact sound discs (ca. 10 hrs.) : Dolby digital, BNR ; 12 cm.
Performers:
Read by Richard Easton.
Summary:
"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."--Container.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2005.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
War fiction
Adult books on CD.
Other authors:
Easton, Richard, 1933-
Penguin Audiobooks.
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