FOR TODAY, December 8th, 2020
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick.
From
the author of the acclaimed ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’,
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’s 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.
Brilliant!
Dreaming about ...
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And that's my daybook for this week . . .
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⋯ ◯ ⋯ Take time to enjoy the small *´¯`.¸¸.☆
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