New Releases by E. L. Doctorow

Cuando le habla a un interlocutor desconocido, Andrew está pensando, hablando, contándonos la historia de su vida, sus amores y las tragedias que lo han llevado a este momento y lugar concretos. A medida que va confesando y que va quitando capas a su extraña historia, nos vemos forzados a cuestionarnos lo que sabemos de la verdad y la memoria, del cerebro y la mente, la personalidad y el destino, sobre el otro y nosotros mismos. Escrito con profundidad y precisión lírica, esta novela que juega con el suspense y experimentación formal resulta perfecta para nuestros tiempos: divertida, incisiva, escéptica, traviesa y profunda. El cerebro de Andrew es un giro de tuerca y un logro singular en la obra de un autor cuya prosa tiene el poder de crear su propio paisaje y cuyo gran tema, en palabras de Don DeLillo es ?el alcance del concepto de lo posible en Estados Unidos, en que cabe que vidas ordinarias adopten la cadencia que marca historia''.

Inspiré d’une histoire vraie, celle des frères Homer et Langley Collyer – les célèbres ermites new-yorkais décédés en 1947 –, un roman qui narre à travers deux personnages délirants l’épopée du matérialisme américain, mais aussi de la solitude américaine. Un insolite portrait de la condition humaine entre romantisme et psychose.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow''s imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

Històries de la dolça terra aplega cinc relats enlluernadors, construïts amb tot el pes i la ressonància de les novel•les per les quals E. L. Doctorow és famós. El lector es trobarà immers en una misteriosa casa de totxos vermells en el rural Illinois ("Una casa a les grans planes"), intentant solucionar els problemes d’una parella que ha raptat un nadó a Califòrnia ("Baby Wilson"), vivint en una comuna religiosa a Kansas ("Walter John Harmon"), compartint el viatge punyent al llarg del país d’una dona jove que llaura el seu camí a través de tres matrimonis dolents ("Jolene: una vida") i observant un agent especial de l’FBI en un enforcall personal mentre investiga un seriós buit en la seguretat de la Casa Blanca ("Nen, mort, al Roserar"). Composats a través d’una varietat d’estats d’ànim i de veus, aquests retrats destacables del paisatge espiritual americà, de l’Amèrica profunda, ens mostren un mestre modern en la seva plenitud.

Read, listen, and sing along to the timeless poetry of togetherness and diversity in this new songbook by Dawud Wharnsby. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Shireen Adams, and with a free audio CD, children and adults will be inspired and absorbed for hours. Smiles, warm and shining, like the sun upon our faces.Hope as rich and green as the trees of an oasis.The colours of Islam bloom in so many places,So many different colours of Islam. Fill the world with colour, paint it everywhere you go.Paint everything you see, and tell everyone you know.Qur''an will be your paint, and your brush will be iman,So fill the world with colour, every colour of Islam. Dawud Wharnsby was born in Canada in 1972. He has been writing stories, songs, and poems for people of all ages for many years. When he is not traveling to sing with audiences around the world, he loves being with his family—hiking in the mountains near his home, growing vegetables, and fixing things that get broken around the house. Dawud lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

Despite increasing competition, this annual collection remains the place to find the most compelling short fiction published in the U.S. and Canada” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). To usher in the new millennium, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000 brims with a rich variety of lyrical and wise stories about our country’s past, present, and future. This year’s editor, the best-selling author E. L. Doctorow, has chosen new works by Raymond Carver, Amy Bloom, Ha Jin, Walter Mosley, and Jhumpa Lahiri, among others. The most popular compendium of its kind, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES is the only volume that offers the finest short fiction each year, chosen by a distinguished author.

In Conversations with E. L. Doctorow Christopher D. Morris has gathered over twenty of the most revelatory interviews with the acclaimed author of Ragtime, World''s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and other novels, plays, and short stories. Whatever the setting or time period, Doctorow''s characters spark an unparalleled urgency in the novelist''s re-creations of history. In his work the American dream and the values his characters try to live by turn to madness and ashes. Within this collection Doctorow explores the themes of his work not only in the contexts of national and literary history but also in terms of disturbing trends in contemporary American culture. Talking about style, Doctorow discusses his experiments with shifting points of view and unreliable narrators as part of the modernist heritage to which readers have become accustomed. But he stresses that these techniques are always subordinate to the telling of a good story and the creation of memorable characters.

Over the years, one of America''s most acclaimed novelists has quietly produced some of the best essays in the land. In these 16 reflections upon American texts, Doctorow shows us the hidden connections between our poets and our presidents, our classic literary works and the lyrics of popular songs, the ways of 19th-century New York and the way we live now. Each one carries with it the remarkable talents of the novelist and suggests that the proper practice of letters knows no bounds. This selection of essays is preeminently concerned with the character of America -- who we are and why we are this way.

At the peak of his literary fame and fortune, Jonathan walks out on his wife, moves into a Manhattan loft, and goes back through his life, reinventing his world through his writer''s imagination.

Novel of a young boy''s life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World''s Fair.