Ebook {Epub PDF} The March by E.L. Doctorow

The march in question in EL Doctorow’s fascinating novel is that taken by 60, men of the Union Army led by General William Tecumseh Sherman in November and December , on which he laid waste parts of Georgia, destroying Atlanta, then turned seaward, leaving behind a trail of devastation as he marched through South Carolina and into North Carolina, ending with the capture of Savannah on. E.L. Doctorow-The March. It is perhaps now a little hard to comprehend just how unsettling E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime seemed at the time of its publication (). Not exactly a historical novel--it seems designed to question the very utility of historical "fact" in our consideration of the past--it nevertheless produces a vivid if subjective. The March is a historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction () and the National Book Critics Circle Award/Fiction (). Published in by E.L. Doctorow, The March is a historical fiction novel set in late and early near the conclusion of the American Civil War. Central to the novel is the character of General William Tecumseh.

The March, a novel by E. L. Doctorow, follows an array of disparate characters through the final weeks of the Civil War. As General William Tecumseh Sherman marches his Union troops through Georgia and north through the Carolinas, they are joined by another growing army of followers — freed slaves and displaced well-to-do whites, all of whom are at a loss regarding what to do now that their. E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March' For years, E.L. Doctorow thought that Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's destructive march to the sea near the end of the Civil War would make for a. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, - J) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction.. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included the award-winning novels Ragtime (), Billy Bathgate (), and The March (). These, like many of his other works, placed.

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. In , 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. E. L. Doctorow’s work has been published in thirty languages. His novels include The March, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, and The Waterworks. Among his honors are the National Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner awards, three National Book Critics Circle awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially. In this wondrous novel from the depth of human spirit that some call the "soul," author E. L. Doctorow portrays the lives of northern troops as they march through the south to conquer the confederacy in the Civil, north against south. "The March" details a dozen lives, large and small, black and white, north and south.