Author: DOCTOROW, E. L.
Title: Sweet Land Stories
Description: New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1400062047. Book and boards are near-fine, DJ shows light shelf wear along bottom edge.; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.4 X 6.5 X 0.9 inches; 147 pages; "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.". Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 1400062047 Fiction::Short Stories
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Title: Sweet Land Stories
Description: New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1400062047. Book and boards are near-fine, DJ shows light shelf wear along bottom edge.; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.4 X 6.5 X 0.9 inches; 147 pages; "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.". Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 1400062047 Fiction::Short Stories
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 19893
- Book number: 19893
See more books from our catalog: Fiction::Short stories