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March
by Geraldine Brooks
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Richly Layered
  Here's my advice about reading "March." Skip to the Afterward and read it first. It's just a suggestion, particularly for those not familiar with "Little Women" and its place within the Civil War. I think you'll admire the research and sheer work that went into developing the concept of "March" and, as a result, more appreciative of the arc of the story and the punch it packs. Geraldine Brooks' idea for this book, frankly, is genius and it allows for the combination of solid research about the war and her... more info

• Beautifully written book.....not so great ending.
  I won't go into details about the plot; amazon has already done a pretty decent job at that. What I do want to do is address some of the other reviewers' comments and also talk a little bit about why I gave this book 4 stars and not 5.
  First: This book is NOT a sequel to "Little Women." Anyone who complains that "as a sequel to 'Little Women' this book sucks" is, I'm afraid, an idiot who neither owns, nor has access to, a dictionary. "March" is what you would call a revisionist text -- it takes... more info

• I Loved Meeting Mr. March And Hearing His Story
  This is one of the most Pulizer-worthy novels I've read in a long while. The novel tells the previously untold story of the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (Signet Classics). In Little Women, the reader only gets to know Peter March through his letters sent home to his family from the Civil War. Of course, in the interest of sparing his family the details of war, his letters are more cheerful than his reality. Geraldine Brooks uses the novel March to tell of Mr. March's early life as a... more info

• LIttle Women Grows Up
  
  This book can be appreciated on two levels. First, it is an enthralling novel of the Civil War filled with well-researched details about the people and not the battles.
  Second, and the reason I bought it, is that it is the adventures of Mr. March, the rather vague and saintly father from Little Women. Little Women was one of the very first books I had ever read and I fell in love with the March family. Reading MARCH was like discovering things about your parents' pasts that both shocked you and... more info

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