Summary
You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois (‘A House on the Plains’), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California (‘Baby Wilson’), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas (‘Walter John Harmon’), sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages (‘Jolene: A Life’), and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White Ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349120195 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349120196 |
| Author: | E.L. Doctorow |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 13mm |
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** ‘Though they number just five, each of these masterful short stories lingers in the mind with the weight of a far longer work
The perfect short story is a novel boiled down to a bouillon cube, or perhaps a single drop of water with a world reflected in its surface. These intense, vivid snapshots of the American psyche, by that old wizard, E.L. ragtime Doctorow, come close to that platonic ideal… Doctorow has a deep respect for all his characters, and a genius for finding remarkable things in outwardly unremarkable lives - THE TIMES
The exact use of language, allied to an underlying compassion, makes this writer hugely appealing - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Powerfully compact and direct - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Though they number just five, each of these masterful short stories lingers in the mind with the weight of a far longer work’ - DAILY MAIL The stories in E.L. Doctorow s new collection are all about the improvisation of family life, and the small-scale crimes required to sustain the illusion of marriage and parenthood’ - DAILY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
E.L. Doctorow
E L Doctorow’s work is published in thirty languages. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. He lives and works in New York.
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