March, the by E L Doctorow
WINER OF THE NATIONAL BOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. 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.
E. L. Doctorow's works of fiction include Andrew's Brain, Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World's Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer's lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame and won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which is given to an author whose scale of achievement over a sustained career [places] him in the highest rank of American literature. In 2013 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Doctorow died in 2015.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375506710 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375506713 |
| Title | March, the |
| Author | E L Doctorow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2005-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 363 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 2005, Winner of PEN/Faulkner Award 2006, Commended for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction) 2006, Commended for National Book Awards (Fiction) 2005, Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Fiction) 2005, Short-listed for Quill Awards (General Fiction) 2006 |
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