March | Geraldine Brooks | "Little Women" From Anothor P.O.V

March | Geraldine Brooks | well deserved award winner

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March

	March Geraldine Brooks Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 136 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

?A very great book... It breathes new life into the historical fiction genre [and] honors the best of the imagination.? ?Chicago Tribune
?A beautifully wrought story about how war dashes ideals, unhinges moral certainties and drives a wedge of bitter experience and unspeakable memories between husband and wife.? ?Los Angeles Times Book Review
?Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet.? ?The Cleveland Plain Dealer
?Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased.? ?The Economist

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"Little Women" From Anothor P.O.V

"Little Women" is one book that is a big sentimental favorite with me. It's the first book I reviewed for Amazon and I still re-read it occasionally,because it's like visiting an old friend. I think Ms. Brooks has done a wonderful job with her back-story of Mr. March,the family patriarch,who is really a minor character in the original. He is shown as a highly idealistic man(especially for the times he lived in) A strict vegetarian,extremely intelligent ,unique in his spirituality(the real-life father was a Transcendentalist.) I also really liked how "Marmee" is portrayed. Almost saintlike in "LW",here she is shown as a smart,intense woman. Outspoken and at times,very temperamental,yet still likable,much like her daughter,Jo. Finally this book truly shows the horrors of war and slavery,a subject the original book lightly touched upon,as the LW was written a book for children,girls in particular. I wouldn't reccomend this book to anyone younger than 12 or 13 as there is a lot of graphic depictions of Slavery and the war itself,the injured especially,that are a far cry from Alcott's genteel writing. Overall,I found this book a fast,fascinating read and both a plausible and worthy successor to the original story.

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well deserved award winner

Interestingly, I read Year of Wonders ages ago and never picked this up even though I LOVED her earlier books. I thought if I wasn't so hip on recalling Little Women and remembering their story, that I'd be lost. I was WRONG. This is a delightful and incredibly written book and there is no need to be a Little Women addict. This book touches the heart on right versus wrong, war, relationships of friendship and love, slavery and so much more. Great read!

A good read with an interesting spin on an old story

As others have said this is the story of the father of the Little Women girls. Not a character I had ever thought much about but I have to admit that I liked this book very much. It was an easy read that really captured an interesting time in history. Brooks is a good writer whose prose vividly paints Civil War battlefields, Washington D.C. during the war and the gruesomeness of battle. It's also short enough to read on a long flight or a weekend vacation.

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