March
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for controlled release to scotsbookie tomorrow, 18 july 2001 (by mail)
Thank you mandaya, the book arrived safely today.
From Publishers Weekly
Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations. In between, we learn of March's earlier life: his whirlwind courtship of quick-tempered Marmee, his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and the surprising cause of his family's genteel poverty. When a Confederate attack on the contraband farm lands March in a Washington hospital, sick with fever and guilt, the first-person narrative switches to Marmee, who describes a different version of the years past and an agonized reaction to the truth she uncovers about her husband's life. Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott's transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes; her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality, yet the narrative is always accessible. Through the shattered dreamer March, the passion and rage of Marmee and a host of achingly human minor characters, Brooks's affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering.
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The story of Mr March while he is away from his Little Women serving as a chaplain to the Federal troops in the American Civil war.
I did enjpoy the book but was slightly disconcerted by the sassy character of Marmee. She definitely didn't come across this way in Little Women. Fortunately I'm not a purist so it didn't detract from the book for me.
Thank you mandaya for trading this book with me.
Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations. In between, we learn of March's earlier life: his whirlwind courtship of quick-tempered Marmee, his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and the surprising cause of his family's genteel poverty. When a Confederate attack on the contraband farm lands March in a Washington hospital, sick with fever and guilt, the first-person narrative switches to Marmee, who describes a different version of the years past and an agonized reaction to the truth she uncovers about her husband's life. Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott's transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes; her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality, yet the narrative is always accessible. Through the shattered dreamer March, the passion and rage of Marmee and a host of achingly human minor characters, Brooks's affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The story of Mr March while he is away from his Little Women serving as a chaplain to the Federal troops in the American Civil war.
I did enjpoy the book but was slightly disconcerted by the sassy character of Marmee. She definitely didn't come across this way in Little Women. Fortunately I'm not a purist so it didn't detract from the book for me.
Thank you mandaya for trading this book with me.
On its holidays being read by my parents.
Back from its holiday with my parents & enjoyed by them both.
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Hope you enjoy the book Tfunk2o05!
Hope you enjoy the book Tfunk2o05!
Just got it in the mail the other day! Thank you so much Scotobookie!!! :) I can't wait to read it! :)
I should have wrote this a few weeks ago when I finished the book. Anyways, I LOVED IT!!! I thought it was just really creative and fun to read. I'm going to send it off to my step sister! :) Thank you so much for sending it to JAPAN!!!
