Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by E.L. Doctorow:

Andrew's Brain, January 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
All the Time in the World, April 2011
Hardcover
Billy Bathgate, December 2010
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Homer & Langley, September 2009
Hardcover
Welcome To Hard Times, September 2007
Trade Size (reprint)
The Book of Daniel: A Novel, July 2007
Paperback
Ragtime, May 2007
Trade Size
The March, September 2005
Hardcover
Ragtime, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
The Book of Daniel, April 1996
Trade Size (reprint)

Welcome To Hard Times
E.L. Doctorow

Random House
September 2007
On Sale: September 11, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0812978226
EAN: 9780812978223
Trade Size (reprint)
Add to Wish List

Western | Historical

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. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably–and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw. Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics.

“A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.”
–The Washington Post

“We are caught up with these people as real human beings.”
–Chicago Sun-Times

“Dramatic and exciting.”
–The New York Times

“Terse and powerful.”
–Newsweek

“A taut, bloodthirsty read.”
–The Times Literary Supplement

“A superb piece of fiction.”
–The New Republic

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!