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by Geraldine Brooks

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Author: Geraldine Brooks
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01-31
ISBN: 0143036661
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Book Review: A RICHLY CONCEIVED STORY SUPERBLY READ
Summary: 4 Stars

How many of us have read, often reread "Little Women" and wondered about the father? Amy, Beth and Jo are very much a part of our literary lives, but Pere March is missing. Now, thanks to the imaginative pen of Geraldine Brooks (Year of Wonders, 2001) we meet and come to know the man.

His story is primarily told through letters that he writes to his family, pens from the devastation of the Civil War. Stage and film actor Richard Easton inhabits the voice of this caring chaplain to tell listeners what March shares with his family and the horrors that he does not.

Captain March has gone to serve the Union forces, bolstered by his faith and high ideals. He's ill prepared to find himself amidst carnage and cruelty. He is assigned to teach on a plantation where he meets once again a beautiful slave whom he had known before his marriage.

The author vividly imagines early friendships between March and Emerson and Thoreau, as well as his first introduction to the woman who would become his wife. She will recall their early life a bit differently.

Those who enjoy history blended with richly conceived fiction will be well pleased with "March."

- Gail Cooke

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