Author: E. L. DOCTOROW
Title: The March
Description: Little, Brown, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 384. 'Doctorow raises evocation to an art form in itself, allowing the experience of war, of war in general, to be revisited in all its intensity' Sunday TimesIn 1864 General William Sherman burned Atlanta and 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 plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of those who marched.'Doctorow invests even the smallest cameo with humanity and significance. Exquisitely rendered' Observer'Splendid' John Updike, New Yorker'A powerful account not merely of one particular war but of war itself' Spectator. ISBN: 9780349119595. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: The March
Description: Little, Brown, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 384. 'Doctorow raises evocation to an art form in itself, allowing the experience of war, of war in general, to be revisited in all its intensity' Sunday TimesIn 1864 General William Sherman burned Atlanta and 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 plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of those who marched.'Doctorow invests even the smallest cameo with humanity and significance. Exquisitely rendered' Observer'Splendid' John Updike, New Yorker'A powerful account not merely of one particular war but of war itself' Spectator. ISBN: 9780349119595. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780349119595
Price: EUR 7.00 = appr. US$ 7.61 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 390728
- Book number: 390728
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