All the Time in the World - New and Selected Stories

Zusatztext “Frank! spontaneous and altogether wonderful.”— San Francisco Chronicle   “The . . . stories in All the Time in the World are a reminder that! for decades! Mr. Doctorow has been a first-rate artist in the short form.” —The Wall Street Journal   “The incandescent new stories and forever stunning vintage tales . . . selected for this powerhouse collection [are] complex and masterful . . . wise and resplendent.” —Booklist   “Wonderful descriptions [and] gorgeous sentences . . . seem to fall effortlessly from Doctorow’s fingertips.” —Chicago Tribune   “Savor All the Time in the World for its elegance! its intuition and for Doctorow’s understanding of the complexity of the human drama.” —The Miami Herald   “Doctorow has captured the mood of our time and rendered it in compelling fiction.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer Informationen zum Autor E. L. Doctorow Klappentext From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow "distinct from their surroundings-people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world." Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous classics, All the Time in the World is resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow. Chapter 1 Wakefield People will say that i left my wife and i suppose, as a factual matter, I did, but where was the intentionality? I had no thought of deserting her. It was a series of odd circumstances that put me in the garage attic with all the junk furniture and the raccoon droppings-which is how I began to leave her, all unknowing, of course- whereas I could have walked in the door as I had done every evening after work in the fourteen years and two children of our marriage. Diana would think of her last sight of me, that same morning, when she pulled up to the station and slammed on the brakes, and I got out of the car and, before closing the door, leaned in with a cryptic smile to say good-bye-she would think that I had left her from that moment. In fact, I was ready to let bygones be bygones and, in another fact, I came home the very same evening with every expectation of entering the house that I, we, had bought for the raising of our children. And, to be absolutely honest, I remember I was feeling that kind of blood stir you get in anticipation of sex, because marital arguments had that effect on me. Of course, the deep change of heart can come over anyone, and I don't see why, like everything else, it wouldn't be in character. After having lived dutifully by the rules, couldn't a man shaken out of his routine and distracted by a noise in his backyard veer away from one door and into another as the first step in the transformation of his life? And look what I was transformed into-hardly something to satisfy a judgment of normal male perfidy. I will say here that at this moment I love Diana more truthfully than ever in our lives together, including the day of our wedding, when she was so incredibly beautiful in white lace with the sun coming down through the stained glass and setting a rainbow choker on her throat. On the particular evening I speak of-this thing with the 5:38, when the last car, where I happened to be sitting, did not move off with the rest of the train? Even given the sorry state of the railroads in this country, tell me when that has happened. Every seat taken, and we sat there in the sudden dark and turned to one another for an explanation, as the rest of the train disappeared into the tunnel. It was the bare, fluorescent-lit concrete platform outside that added to the suggestion of imprisonment. Someone laughed, but in a moment several passengers ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: E .L. Doctorow, E L Doctorow, E. L. Doctorow, E.L. Doctorow
• Verlag: Random House USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9780812982039
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-8203-9
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur