March: Pulitzer Prize Winner (A Novel)

Geraldine Brooks

Jan 2006 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord.

From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks's place as a renowned author of historical fiction.

Ratings and reviews

A well-researched, deeply emotional, and imaginatively rich portrait of the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's novel, LITTLE WOMEN. Cleverly combining historical nuggets with her own dramatic license, Brooks creates Mr. March as an admirable, complex, financially naive, self-absorbed idealist who goes off to support the North in the American Civil War, witnessing horror and carnage. Full of rich themes and characters.

This was a good book. I couldn't stop reading it.

Beautiful and ruthless literary companion to Little Women

About the author

Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning March; the international bestsellers Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders; and, most recently, The Secret Chord. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha's Vinyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.