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Zusatztext ** 'Though they number just five! each of these masterful short stories lingers in the mind with the weight of a far longer work Informationen zum Autor E. L. Doctorow's novels include Andrew's Brain , Homer and Langley , The March , City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate and The Waterworks. Among his honours are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. He died in July 2015. Klappentext These dazzling 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 house in rural Illinois, working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California, living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas, sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages, and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White House Security. These remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers. * A dazzling collection of short works crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E.L. Doctorow is famous Zusammenfassung * A dazzling collection of short works crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E.L. Doctorow is famous
