A superb collection of fifteen stories by an American master, E.
L. Doctorow—the author of Ragtime, The March,
The Book of Daniel, and Billy Bathgate
He has been called “a national treasure” by George Saunders.
He has been called “a national treasure” by George Saunders.
It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man
from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he
finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a
vision of life so different from his own that it changes his
destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical
place called Loon Lake.
Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory
of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent
classics.
Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage.
Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage.
To listen to this audiobook is to enter the perilous, thrilling
world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into
the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban
Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he
becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally
protégé to one of the great murdering gangsters of
the Depression-era underworld in New York City.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story about a cross that vanishes from a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan only to reappear on the roof of an Upper West Side synagogue.
With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story about a cross that vanishes from a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan only to reappear on the roof of an Upper West Side synagogue.
"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times
The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair .
The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair .
Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant
stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of
the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in
the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying
and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative
through letters.
This brilliant novel by an American master, the author
of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy
Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a
radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his
life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster.
One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of
Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and
World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to
the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a
people and how we live.
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were
executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths.
“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective
fiction.”
–The Washington Post Book World
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.
–The Washington Post Book World
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.
From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s
Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of
E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American
letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of
brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author
notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their
surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the
prevailing world”.
