The march : a novel / E.L. Doctorow.
Record details
- ISBN: 0375728481 :
- Physical Description: 509 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, 2005.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award Finalist, Fiction, 2005. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. War stories. Large type books. |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | LP FIC Doc (Text) | 33160125556848 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | LP FIC DOC (Text) | 36123001144029 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | FIC DOCTOROW L.T. ed. (Text) | 34025102707970 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | LP FIC DOCTOROW (Text) | 34010104419725 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | S LP FIC DOCTOROW, E (Text) | 34005100494094 | Storage | Available | - |
Somers Public Library | LARGE PRINT FIC DOC (Text) | 34042103439560 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Wolcott Public Library | LP DOCTOROW, E. MA (Text) | 34031100787139 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
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Author Notes
The March
E. L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931, in the Bronx, New York. He received an A.B. in philosophy in 1952 from Kenyon College and did graduate work at Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1953-1955. He began his career as a script reader for CBS Television and Columbia Pictures and as a senior editor for the New American Library. He was editor-in-chief for Dial Press from 1964 to 1969, where he also served as vice president and publisher in his last year on staff. It was at this time that he decided to write full time. He wrote novels, short stories, essays, and a play. His debut novel, Welcome to Hard Times, was published in 1960 and was adapted into a film in 1967. His other works include, Loon Lake, The Waterworks, The March, Homer and Langley, and Andrew's Brain. He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1986 for World's Fair and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1976 for Ragtime, which was adapted into a film in 1981 and a Broadway musical in 1998. Billy Bathgate received the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal in 1990. The Book of Daniel and Billy Bathgate were also adapted into films. He received the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for his outstanding achievement in fiction writing. He died of complications from lung cancer on July 21, 2015 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography)