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New and Selected Stories
Random House
April 2011
On Sale: March 21, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 1400069637
EAN: 9781400069637
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Science Fiction
From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March,
and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises
a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now
Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of
brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the
author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from
their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the
prevailing world”. A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself
from his upper-middle-class life and turns to foraging in
the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family. A college graduate takes a dishwasher’s job on a whim, and
becomes entangled in a criminal enterprise after agreeing to
marry a beautiful immigrant for money. A husband and wife’s tense relationship is exacerbated when
a stranger enters their home and claims to have grown up there. An urbanite out on his morning run suspects that the city in
which he’s lived all his life has transmogrified into
another city altogether. These are among the wide-ranging creations in this stunning
collection, resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral
investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L.
Doctorow. Containing six unforgettable 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.
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