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"Horse," by Geraldine Brooks, explores the unwritten history of America’s most famous racehorse—and how far we still have to go in confronting systemic racism. Geraldine Brooks on Racing—and ...
Author Geraldine Brooks didn’t get horse fever until she was 50, when she started riding, and eventually brought one home. It was also around the time when the author of “March,” a Pulitzer ...
Brooks, Geraldine (1994). Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. Anchor Books. ISBN 9780385475761. Brooks, Geraldine (1997). Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over. Anchor Books/Doubleday. ISBN 9780385482691. Brooks, Geraldine (2011). Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea of Home (or "At Home in the ...
March (2005) is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862.
The book's Afterword briefly explains which parts of the novel are based on fact and which are imaginary. Geraldine Brooks wrote an article for The New Yorker that provides more details about the Sarajevo Haggadah and its real-life rescuers, especially Dervis Korkut, who hid it from the Nazis. It also explains that Lola, the young Jewish ...
The Secret Chord is a 2015 novel about King David by Australian American author Geraldine Brooks. [1] Plot summary. Told from the point of view of the prophet Nathan, ...
According to The Greatest Books, a site that aggregates book lists, it is "The 233rd greatest book of all time". [11] In a poll of US literary critics that was conducted by BBC Culture and had its results shared in January 2015, Gilead was voted the fourth greatest novel written since 2000. [ 12 ]
First American edition, 1906 Quotation from A Smuggler's Song on an inn in Dorset, with "Smugglers" replacing "Gentlemen".. Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, [1] published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.