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'.

The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate has compiled his first collection of essays, a richly textured and detailed combination of literary criticism, political invective, and historical meditation.

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel.

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.

Doctorow's novels imagine the great moments of American history - the Old West, the Depression - as backdrops for tales of moral pain and injustice. In these interviews, Doctorow explores the themes of his work.

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.

During the Great Depression of the '30s, a passionate, young New Jersey man leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds is a life so different from his own that it changes his destiny. A haunting story of dreams and desires, repackaged to match Doctorow's other bestsellers. Reprint from Bantam. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

US-amerikanischer Autor (1931-2015). - Vor dem gesellschaftlichen Panorama Amerikas zu Beginn dieses Jahrhunderts erzählt E.L. Doctorow die Geschichte von Coalhouse Walker, einem schwarzen Jazzpianisten. Coalhouse Walker hat es zu Ansehen gebracht und ist, ungewöhnlich für seine Zeit, stolzer Besitzer eines Fords Modell T. Als sein Auto von Rassisten mutwillig beschädigt wird, fordert er verbissen Wiedergutmachung und Strafe, Gerechtigkeit, die ihm die Verfassung garantiert und die Gesellschaft verweigert. Walkers Aufbegehren und tragische Verstrickungen verbindet Doctorow kunstvoll mit der Geschichte einer wohlhabenden weißen Familie der Ostküste und dem wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg eines jüdischen Einwanderers