Book : March A Novel - Brooks, Geraldine

-Titulo Original : March A Novel

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Penguin Books

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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 Alcotts 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 Brookss 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 novelists 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 Calebs 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 Marthas Vinyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 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 ink you need not trouble to send more, as one of the men has shown me an