Books written by E. L. Doctorow

Scenes and Sequences: Recent Monotypes by Eric Fischl

Scenes and Sequences: Recent Monotypes by Eric Fischl
Sweet Land Stories

... all morning to an office full of people who had trouble catching their breath. Molloy remarked on the crowd. Yes, well, the smog has been worse than usual. You put enough nitrogen oxide into a summer day and the phones light up.
The waterworks

In post-Civil War New York City, a young pedestrian recognizes his supposedly dead father riding in a passing horse-drawn omnibus. By the author of Ragtime. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Homer and Langley

By the National Book Award-winning author of Billy Bathgate.
Homer ja Langley

Bellow: Dekaanin joulukuu 180. Vonnegut: Kalmasilmä 181. Malraux: Toivo 182. Chatwin: Erottamattomat 183. Soyinka: Aké – lapsuusvuodet 184. Canetti: Pelastunut kieli 185. Davies: Viides rooli 186. Irving: Välisarjan avioliitto 187.
The Book of Daniel: A Novel

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.
A vak zongorista

Elég kicsi voltam még ahhoz, hogy azt higgyem, létezik a mennyország... hogy elképzeljem, ahogy az örökkévalóságot azzal a szalmakalapos és csíkos zakós bendzsózenekarral kell töltenem, hogy egy napon talán majd örökre ezek közé a ...
The Book of Daniel

FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment, and after a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent...
Johnny Got His Gun

When Joe, a young American soldier in the Great War, lies helpless in hospital, he wanders back and forth through memories, struggling to retain his sanity and find a foothold in the world all but lost to him.
The March: A Novel

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war, in a richly textured, evocative historical novel that ...
Three Screenplays

HOUDINI My pleasure , Commandant . ( calling to his MECHANIC ) Raoul ! I need a fillup . EXT . SKY . DAY Shots of HOUDINI , cocky and happy doing some lumbering aviation stunts flying over the parade ground . EXT . PARADE GROUND .
Three Screenplays

For this book, Doctorow has revised his dazzling Ragtime screenplay, making clear how different the film might have been, and has written a preface about the art of screenwriting.
Conversations with E.L. Doctorow

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.
Billy Bathgate

'I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom' It's 1930's New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken ...
Reporting the Universe

Filled with philosophical musings and personal observations, this fiction writerÆs take on the universe combines memoir with science to explore the American consciousness and experience. (Literature)
Ragtime

Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat.
Drinks Before Dinner: A Play

Edgar dreads what might occur at a dinner party of old friends, but the evening turns out to be much different from what he expected.
The Best American Short Stories 2000

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
Ragtime

A novel set in in America at the turn of the 20th century. It's characters: three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata.
Loon Lake

What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called Loon Lake.