March

A Love Story in a Time of War - Prix Pulitzer Fiction 2006

Geraldine Brooks

304 pages, parution le 16/01/2006

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From the author of the acclaimed Year Of Wonders&, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, March tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's classic American novel. In Brooks' telling, March emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the Union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a Washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of 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. As Alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May's father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

The story spans the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, through to the first year of the Civil War as the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats. Like her bestselling Year Of Wonders, March follows an unconventional love story. It explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held belief.

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Prix Pulitzer - Fiction - 2006

L'auteur - Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is the author of two acclaimed works of non-fiction, Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. She is also a former war correspondent whose writing has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Guardian. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies in the UK.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Harper
Auteur(s)	Geraldine Brooks
Parution	16/01/2006
Nb. de pages	304
Format	13 x 20
Couverture	Broché
Poids	210g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780007165872
ISBN13	978-0-00-716587-2