description: In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.
language: English
title: The March
titlecomplete: The March
characters: General Sherman
genres: Civil War, American, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, American History, American Civil War, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 13547
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Michael Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza
publisher: Random House