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The March E.L. Doctorow, 2005 Random House 384 pp. ISBN-13: 9780812976151 Summary In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas.
Books. The March: A Novel. E.L. Doctorow. Random House Publishing Group, Sep 20, 2005 - Fiction - 384 pages. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into ...
Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary. Ragtime opens in 1902 in New Rochelle, New York. An unnamed narrator describes his family home. The narrator lives with several family members: Father, Mother, Mother’s Younger Brother, and the narrator’s brother—simply referred to as the little boy. It is an upper class family, with Father accumulating ...
Plot Summary. A work of experimental fiction, award-winning American author E. L. Doctorow’s Loon Lake (1980) incorporates a wide range of literary techniques and styles, including blank verse poetry and stream of consciousness. The narrative focuses on a young man who finds refuge at a millionaire's estate in New York's Adirondack Mountains.
The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an ...
Sep 1, 2005 · History based known novels of American writer Edgar Laurence Doctorow. His works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National ...
The March, a novel by E. L. Doctorow, follows an array of disparate characters through the final weeks of the Civil War. As General William Tecumseh Sherman marches his Union troops through Georgia and north through the Carolinas, they are joined by another growing army of followers — freed slaves and displaced well-to-do whites, all of whom ...
