Audio Book Description:
As the North reels under a series ofdefeats during the first year of the Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. Hisexperiences will change his marriage andchallenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant, March is an extraordinary novel woven out of thelore of American history by theauthor of the international bestseller Year of Wonders. From Louisa May Alcott`s belovedclassic Little Women, GeraldineBooks has taken the characterof the absent father, March, who has gone off to war leavinghis wife and daughters to makedo in mean times. March emerges as an idealistic chaplin in the little known backwaters of war that will test his faith in himself and in the Union cause. Spanning the intellectual world of Concord and teh sensuous antebellum South, March adds adult resonance to Alcott`s optimistic children`s tale. Alushly written, wholly originaltale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks`s place as a renowned author of historicalfiction.
