Lives of the Poets (Picador Books) - Softcover
A son is set the task of concealing his father's death; a drowned child is callously handled by rescuers; a lonely schoolteacher is shot by a hunter; a boy witnesses his mother's act of infidelity; a car explosion kills a foreign schoolgirl; and the middle-aged author of these tales depicts his own consciousness. In a perceptive work about a writer of stories, acclaimed author E.L. Doctorow opens to the reader the creative imagination of a writer.
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E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, City of God, The March, Homer & Langley, and Andrew’s Brain. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/ Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. In 2014 he was honored with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
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“Extraordinary beauty and power . . . a book to fall in love with.”—Chicago Tribune Book World
“Better than any fiction I know, Lives of the Poets illuminates the sources from which fiction springs.”—Newsweek
“Doctorow is an impeccable stylist, a man who writes with exceptional clarity and precision.”—Publishers Weekly
“Invaluable . . . Doctorow’s subtlest work of fiction.”—New York Times Book Review
“Better than any fiction I know, Lives of the Poets illuminates the sources from which fiction springs.”—Newsweek
“Doctorow is an impeccable stylist, a man who writes with exceptional clarity and precision.”—Publishers Weekly
“Invaluable . . . Doctorow’s subtlest work of fiction.”—New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0330291769
- ISBN 13 9780330291767
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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