![]() ![]() Forgive my unlovely script, for an army on the march provides no tranquil place for reflection and correspondence. My hand, which I note is flecked with traces of dried phlegm, has the tremor of exhaustion. The line I have set down is, perhaps, on the florid side of fine, but no matter: she is a gentle critic. I pause there to mop my aching eye, which will not stop tearing. A dipping sun gilded and brazed each raveling edge as if the firmament were threaded through with precious filaments. ![]() ![]() This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky. Melissa Block visits Brooks at her home and the scene of the battle nearby.įollowing is an excerpt from March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks. The discovery of a Union soldier's belt buckle in the Civil War-era courtyard of Brooks' home provided the germ of the novel. 21, 1861, on a steep bluff overlooking the Potomac River, Union forces were flanked and routed by Confederate troops. The author lives near the site of the battle where, on Oct. ![]() March, becomes undone by the evils of war and his own moral shortcomings. A Civil War battle of Ball's Bluff, near Leesburg, Va., forms the backdrop for the opening scene of Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March. ![]()
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