Solitude Dr. March - Geraldine Brooks
This novel by the author of the book Hannah - novel that I enjoyed as a hymn to tolerance in a first sight of metaphysical thriller (which it is not at all, I think the less) and has just been published by Pocket - received the Pulitzer Prize. It's actually her second novel after 1666 .
All the girls of my generation, generations previous and next for that matter, have read in their childhood Four Little Women : for those who do not know, this novel by Louisa May Alcot, bestseller Throughout the course, said a year in the life of a family whose father has gone to the Civil War. Meg, the daughter was under reporting, Jo, a tomboy who dreams of becoming a writer, Beth, the frail girl and a talented pianist, Amy, the youngest, spoiled, and their mother Marmee try, and somehow to sacrifice accepted with more or less enthusiasm to keep going despite financial difficulties. Abolitionists, they communicate as much as possible with Dr. March, a chaplain in the Union armies. Geraldine Brooks
in his novel proposes to bring us another perspective lacking in history, that of arms market. The first chapter shows us the Reverend March immersed in his daily exercise:
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