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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “E. L. Doctorow <is> always astonishing. . . . In The March , he dreams himself backward from The Book of Daniel to Ragtime to The Waterworks to the Civil War, into the... read more
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At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have to come, and down the stairs she flew to see the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses. steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded sholders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be.
Table of Contents
Part I - Georgia
Part II - South Carolina
Part III - North Carolina
Authors & Contributors
- E. L. Doctorow (Author)
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