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THE MARCH
by Doctorow, E.L
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375506713
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506710
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The 12th novel from the award-winning author generally acknowledged to be America's best writer of historical fiction, was itself winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2006. "The March" creates a fictional world populated with a multitude of unforgettable characters swept up in the violence and devastation of Sherman's famous "march to the sea." during the Civil War. First Printing, First Edition. 363 pages in black boards with gold lettering on the spine. A very slight spine lean at spine's lower end, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square with perhaps a touch of shelf wear. Not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only minor wear at the corners and spine ends, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. Collectable.
Synopsis
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 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. The author of Ragtime, City of God, and The Book of Daniel has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters--white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners. At the center is General Sherman himself; a beautiful freed slave girl named Pearl; a Union regimental surgeon, Colonel Sartorius; Emily Thompson, the dispossessed daughter of a Southern judge; and Arly and Will, two misfit soldiers. Almost hypnotic in its narrative drive, The March 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005453
- Title
- THE MARCH
- Author
- Doctorow, E.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0375506713
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506710
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- LCCN
- 2005046452
- Keywords
- MODERN NOVEL, HISTORICAL FIRST EDITION, SHERMAN, CIVIL WAR, GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Literature; African American; Historical Novel;
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- An abbreviation for otherwise
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