From Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, and has added adult resonance to portray the moral complexity of war and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism.
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Authors:Brooks, Geraldine
Copyright:2005
Format:Paperback
GTIN13:9780143036661
ISBN10:0143036661
Page Count:320
Dimensions:5.22x0.64x7.76
Publisher:Penguin Books
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Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The author's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed "Year of Wonders," imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," in this beautifully wrought story about how war dashes ideals, unhinges moral certainties and drives a wedge of bitter experience and unspeakable memories between a husband and wife." 280p.
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Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The author's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed "Year of Wonders," imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," in this beautifully wrought story about how war dashes ideals, unhinges moral certainties and drives a wedge of bitter experience and unspeakable memories between a husband and wife." 280p.