March - Geraldine Brooks by Geraldine Brooks, Brooks
Length: 10hrs 19min Publisher: ABC Audio, 2006, Brookss luminous second novel, after 2001s acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcotts Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or contraband., His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations., In between, we learn of Marchs earlier life: his whirlwind courtship of quick-tempered Marmee, his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and the surprising cause of his familys genteel poverty. When a Confederate attack on the contraband farm
Historical Fiction
March - Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks, Brooks
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Adults
Length: 10hrs 19min Publisher: ABC Audio, 2006, Brookss luminous second novel, after 2001s acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcotts Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or contraband., His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations., In between, we learn of Marchs earlier life: his whirlwind courtship of quick-tempered Marmee, his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and the surprising cause of his familys genteel poverty. When a Confederate attack on the contraband farm
