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Plot Summary. The March, by E.L. Doctorow, is a 2005 historical fiction novel about General Sherman and his march through the South near the end of the American Civil War. Doctorow tells the story through multiple small vignettes from a multitude of characters, all of whom revolve in some way around Sherman and the strategic decisions he makes.
The March: A Novel is a 2005 historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2006) and the National Book Critics Circle Award /Fiction (2005). Plot summary [ edit ]
- E. L. Doctorow
- 384 pp
- 2005
- 2005
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In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.--back cover ISBN_13: 9780812976151
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 ...
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. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern ...
The March. PDF Cite. It is easy to understand why the American Civil War would appeal to a gifted fiction writer such as E. L. Doctorow. This immense conflict began in 1861 and ended in 1865, a ...
Book Summary. Stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. The "Great March" in E. L. Doctorow's hands becomes something more – a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times. In 1864, after Union general William ...
