00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862054384 Buklod 20170220132642.0 g||| | || || ta 170321t20062005xx r |||| f|eng d 0316731986 9780316731980 (iLib)UPBAG-00023398092 DLC BAG rda eng PS 3554 O3 M37 2006 Doctorow, E.L. 1931-2015 author. The march E.L. Doctorow. The march novel. London Little, Brown, an imprint of Time Warner Book Group UK 2006. ©2005. 367 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PS 3554 O3 M37 2006 Book