9780812971774
Sweet Land Stories
E.L. Doctorow
ISBN 13: 9780812971774
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Softcover
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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.
Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick townhouse 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”), and sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages to a kind of bruised but resolute independence (“Jolene: A Life”). And in the stunning “Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden,” you will witness a special agent of the FBI finding himself at a personal crossroads while investigating a grave breach of White House security.
Two of these stories have already won awards as the best fiction of the year published in American periodicals, and two have been chosen for annual best-story anthologies.
Composed in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers.
From the Hardcover edition.
Review:
"A riveting collection of five tightly plotted stories....Fascinating work from a contemporary master."
Kirkus, 02/15/2004
Review:"SWEET LAND STORIES is, in many ways, a volume of shards, a collection of marginal lives. The characters it portrays, essentially one to a story, are castoffs, abandoned by history, buffeted by circumstance....Doctorow shifts his focus inward, giving us a glimpse of American on the fringes, of what happens when it all goes wrong....[D]ispatches from the dark night of the American soul."
David L. Ulin, Nation, 06/28/2004
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