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Portrait of a flawed, principled man.(Daily Break)
From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20050320
Author:
MARCH
GERALDINE BROOKS
Viking. 280 pp. $24.95.
BY KAREN JOY FOWLER
The Washington Post
EARLY IN Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women," the March girls receive a letter from their father. About this letter, Alcott writes, "little was said of the hardships endured, the dangers faced, or the homesickness conquered; it was a cheerful, hopeful letter full of lively descriptions." Mr. March spends much of Alcott's novel exiled from the story, serving as a chaplain for the Union during the Civil War.
Geraldine Brooks' new novel, "March," reverses this. ...
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