E. L. Doctorow Libri

Una mattina piovosa a New York, nel 1871. Il giovane Martin Pemberton rimane colpito da un omnibus a cavalli che porta un gruppo di anziani signori, tutti vestiti di nero, gli sguardi persi nel vuoto, le teste ciondolanti. Tra quei passeggeri a Martin sembra di riconoscere il proprio padre, che credeva morto da anni. Nel tentativo di rintracciare il veicolo e ritrovare quel genitore nemico che un tempo aveva rifiutato, Pemberton attraversa tutti gli strati della contraddittoria New York di fine Ottocento, assediata dalla miseria, devastata dalla guerra di Secessione da poco conclusa, ma già lanciata verso il nuovo secolo. Il giovane scopre a proprie spese che anche le vie illuminate dai recentissimi lampioni a gas, il telegrafo, i giornali che invadono la città, tutta la luccicante vernice della modernità nascondono di fatto una cupa congiura animata dagli istinti e dalle pulsioni più primitive, mentre il lettore rimane a domandarsi fino a quale punto di abiezione ci si possa spingere in nome della scienza e del progresso.

This novel recounts the interrelated early 20th-century lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvement with Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Houdini, Morgan, Freud, Zapata, and other period notables.

E. L. Doctorow's debut novel presents a powerful allegory of frontier life, exploring the struggles and complexities of the human experience in a harsh landscape. This work lays the groundwork for the themes and narrative style that would characterize his later acclaimed novels, offering readers a glimpse into the challenges and resilience of individuals in a formative period of American history.

While Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of his parents' lives, and is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, he is also haunted. A fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, this is a tale of martyrdom and the search for meaning.

Edgar, nine, and his family have difficult times, but Edgar wins tickets for them to attend the New York World's Fair of 1939.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.

A psychological tale recounts the experiences of Andrew, who confesses to an unknown recipient the memory- and truth-challenging events, loves, and tragedies that have led him to a mysterious act.

Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. As he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves.

This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.