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.

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.

One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live. Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb 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 townhouse in rural Illinois (“A House on the Plains”), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California (“Baby Wilson”), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas (“Walter John Harmon”), and sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages to a kind of bruised but resolute independence (“Jolene: A Life”). And in the stunning “Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden,” you will witness a special agent of the FBI finding himself at a personal crossroads while investigating a grave breach of White House security. Two of these stories have already won awards as the best fiction of the year published in American periodicals, and two have been chosen for annual best-story anthologies. Composed in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers.

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.