THE MARCH
de Doctorow, E. L
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY.: Random House. Very Good. 2005. First Edition, First Printing; First Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. This book is hard-bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to the spine, in a very nice dust jacket. The cover corners are lightly bumped. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. This book is signed by the author, E. L. Doctorow on the front free end-page. From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. .
Sinopsis
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. At the center is General Sherman himself; a beautiful freed slave girl named Pearl; a Union regimental surgeon, Colonel Sartorius; Emily Thompson, the dispossessed daughter of a Southern judge; and Arly and Will, two misfit soldiers. Almost hypnotic in its narrative drive, The March stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Hoffman Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 76258
- Título
- THE MARCH
- Autor
- Doctorow, E. L
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover in dust jacket
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing; First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- US Military History, American Civil War, WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, Sherman's March
Términos de venta
Hoffman Books
7 days with prior notification.
Sobre el vendedor
Hoffman Books
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Columbus, Ohio
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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