E. L. Doctorow

A Novel

Ragtime

a novel

The book of Daniel

The Waterworks

Welcome to Hard Times

Billy Bathgate

City of God

Set in America in the early years of this century, this novel interweaves the stories of three representative families -- those of an upper middle-class manufacturer, a poor immigrant, and a black ragtime musician -- with historical personages such as J.P. Morgan, Emma Goldman, Houdini, et al who supposedly become involved with fictional characters.

"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 . . . "From the Paperback edition.

World's Fair

"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.

Lucília Rodrigues

A cidade de Deus

Rich with philosophical asides, historical speculations, personal observations, and literary judgments, "Reporting the Universe" ranges from the circumstances of Doctorow's own boyhood and early work to the state of modern society.

Reporting the Universe

Mark Twain

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Albert E. Stone

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Includes 'Wakefield', which is now a major motion picture starring Bryan Cranston. A wedge is driven between a husband and wife when a mysterious stranger arrives, claiming to have grown up in their home. After agreeing to marry a beautiful, headstrong Russian immigrant in exchange for a promotion, a bus boy turned waiter finds himself entangled in a web of organized crime. A strange confluence of circumstances at the end of an ordinary workday causes a man to go off the grid, living off what he can forage in the same affluent suburb where he once lived comfortably with his family. These and the other mesmerizing works of short fiction in this collection are resonant with the mystery, tension, beauty, and insight that distinguish E. L. Doctorow's novels. Containing six new stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous Doctorow classics, All the Time in the World affords us another opportunity to savor the genius of this American master.

All The Time In The World

This brilliant new 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 an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times-funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew's Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is "the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history."

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