{"product_id":"doctorow-collected-stories-hardcover","title":"Doctorow: Collected Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. L. Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA superb collection of fifteen stories--including \"Wakefield,\" the inspiration for the \u003cb\u003efilm starring Bryan Cranston\u003c\/b\u003e--by the author of \u003ci\u003eRagtime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe March\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Daniel, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBilly Bathgate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has been called \"a national treasure\" by George Saunders. Doctorow's great topic, said Don DeLillo, is \"the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.\" This power is apparent everywhere in these stories: the bravery and self-delusion of people seeking the American dream; the geniuses, mystics, and charlatans who offer people false hope, or an actual glimpse of greatness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \"A House on the Plains,\" a mother has a plan for financial independence, which may include murder. In \"Walter John Harmon,\" a man starts a cult using subterfuge and seduction. \"Jolene: A Life\" follows a teenager who escapes her home for Hollywood on a perilous quest for success. \"Heist,\" the account of an Episcopal priest coping with a crisis of faith, was expanded into the bestseller \u003ci\u003eCity of God\u003c\/i\u003e. \"The Water Works,\" about the underbelly of 1870s New York, grew into a brilliant novel. \"Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate\" is a corollary to the renowned novel and includes Doctorow's revisions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These fifteen stories, written from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century, and selected, revised, and placed in order by the author himself shortly before he died in 2015, are a testament to the genius of E. L. Doctorow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDoctorow: Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here, without the framework of historical context that defines his best-known novels, we discover a Doctorow equally adept at plumbing the contemporary American psyche and are reminded of literature's loss following his death.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"These tales--sketches, really, wide-ranging in time, place and circumstances--are penned by a modern master. . . . What makes Doctorow's historical novels brilliant is their engaging prose, smart writerly style, unconventional narratives and inventive and entertaining plots. Same for these dog-eared, pre-owned stories.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for E. L. Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"He has rewarded us, these forty-five years, with a vision of ourselves, as a people, a vision possessed of what I might call 'aspirational verve'--he sees us clearly and tenderly, just as we are, but also sees \u003ci\u003epast\u003c\/i\u003e that--to what we might, at our best, become.\"\u003cb\u003e--George Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Doctorow did not so much write fiction about history as he seemed to occupy history itself. He owned it. He made it his own.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"On every level, [Doctorow's] work is powerful. . . . His sensitivity to language is perfectly balanced, and complemented by a gigantic vision.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jennifer Egan\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[He wrote] with such stunning audacity that I can still remember my parents' awed dinner-table conversation, that summer, about a novel they were reading, called \u003ci\u003eRagtime, \u003c\/i\u003e that went up to the overgrown wall enclosing the garden of fiction and opened the doorway to history.\"\u003cb\u003e--Michael Chabon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Doctorow's prose tends to create its own landscape, and to become a force that works in opposition to the power of social reality.\"\u003cb\u003e--Don DeLillo\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A writer of dazzling gifts and boundless imaginative energy.\"\u003cb\u003e--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. L. Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e's works of fiction include \u003ci\u003eAndrew's Brain, Homer \u0026amp; Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World's Fair, The Waterworks, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll the Time in the World. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong 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 was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame and won the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which is given to an author whose \"scale of achievement over a sustained career [places] him in the highest rank of American literature.\" In 2013 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Doctorow died in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47497962946781,"sku":"9780399588358","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/cbqS9pxbkv9780399588358.webp?v=1771989653","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/doctorow-collected-stories-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}