March Lib/E
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 Emerson and Thoreau. In Brooks's 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.
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliate
Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, Year of Wonders, and People of the Book and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. She was previously a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha's Vineyard with her husband, Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.
Richard Easton received the 2001 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love. His other Broadway and London theater credits include Henry IV, Noises Off, Exit the King, The Misanthrope, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, Hamlet, Back to Methuselah, The Country Wife, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and The School for Scandal. His films include Finding Forester, Henry V, and Dead Again.
Honorable, elegant and true.
-- "The Wall Street Journal"A beautifully wrought story...Gripping...A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues.
-- "Los Angeles Times"Brilliant...Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March, is a very great book...Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist's license.
-- "Chicago Tribune"The author's extensive research provides the details of time and place that make this tale so compelling. Richard Easton's delivery is flawless-the characters are complex, their encounters, realistic.
-- "Library Journal"
