Description
Product ID: | 9780349119595 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The March |
Subtitle: | A Novel |
Authors: | Author: E. L. Doctorow |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A brutal and brilliant novel set in the American Civil War. Doctorow''s new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman''s epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its conclusion. THE MARCH ranges widely over a diverse set of characters - each of whom is brilliantly realised - so that we see the war through the eyes of both white-skinned Pearl (daughter of slave and slave owner) and General Sherman; a deserting confederate who sets himself up as a photographer; a ruthless army surgeon who enjoys his reputation as an amputator; and the two brothers of a brutal slave owner who find themselves in uniforms facing Sherman''s forces. |
Imprint Name: | Abacus |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2006-11-02 |