The March: A Novel
New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth & Boards. Fine / Fine in Archival Plastic Cover. Item #5303
ISBN: 0375506713
A handsome First Edition, First Printing, shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize, and winner of the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. In fine black cloth & boards, the book is in unread condition. A colorful complete dustjacket in fine condition, with a protective archival plastic cover. A beautiful copy.
The Observer's Lee Siegel provided a fascinating review of the book on 09/19/05: "At one point in E.L. Doctorow’s brilliant and compulsively readable new novel, set in the final months of the Civil War, there appears an injured soldier with an iron spike stuck in his head who cannot remember what he said seconds after he said it. He exists in an eternal present. “It’s always now,” he mutters, again and again. War is like that, Mr. Doctorow seems to be saying. There is no before or after—or inside or outside—to escape to. War’s eternal now imposes a new normalcy by default.
The gradual assimilation of what was once a shock to the system applies to civilian life, too. Your accustomed world might slip into overseas strife under your very nose—the alien place-name “Falluja” might start tripping comfortably off your tongue like the name “Metro-North”—and despite all your moral strength, your original horror would relax into your old routine."
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