by Geraldine Brooks · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007165872
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«March» is the historical novel by Geraldine Brooks, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Historical novel imagining the experience of John March, the absent father of «Mujercitas», during the American Civil War. March, an abolitionist pastor, leaves his family to support the Union cause and discovers on the front the cruelty and racism of both sides. His convalescence in a Washington hospital and his past in the slaveholding South reshape his marriage and his ideals.
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and chosen by the «Richard and Judy» book club. The novel is based on the letters and diaries of Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May Alcott.
Recommended for those seeking an adult rereading of a classic, with a wartime backdrop and moral debate.
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March.
