Pub Date: September 12, 2006
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006284304
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 14 to 18
Physical Info: 0.89" H x 8.04" L x 5.32" W ( 0.65 lbs) 384 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Historical | General | Literary | War and Military
Description: In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his 60,000 troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of those who marched.
Review Quotes: "E. L. Doctorow [is] always astonishing. . . . In The March, he dreams himself backward from The Book of Daniel to Ragtime to The Waterworks to the Civil War, into the creation myth of the Republic itself, as if to assume the prophetic role of such nineteenth-century writers as Emerson, Melville, Whitman, and Poe."--Harper's
"An Iliad-like portrait of war as a primeval human affliction . . . [welds] the personal and the mythic into a thrilling and poignant story."--New York Times "Splendid . . . carries us through a multitude of moments of wonder and pity, terror and comedy . . . with an elegiac compassion and prose of a glittering, swift-moving economy." --The New Yorker