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In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his 60,000 troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of ...

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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 t...

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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...

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"An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.” -The Washington Post Book World One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one o...

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Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Time...

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This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent a...

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Inspired by an attempt in 1894 to blow up London’s Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of the long tradition of espionage thrillers that explore the confused motives at the heart of terrorism. Published i...

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This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster....

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Includes 'Wakefield', which is now a major motion picture starring Bryan Cranston. A wedge is driven between a husband and wife when a mysterious stranger arrives, claiming to have grown up in their home. After agreeing to marry a beauti...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this ...

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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...

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. ...

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“Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston GlobeSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • ...

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»Doctorow greift das Vermächtnis von Fitzgerald auf und fügt einen eigenen erotischen Glanz hinzu.« John le Carré Billy Bathgate erzählt die mitreißende Geschichte eines New Yorker Straßenjungen, der als Lehrling und Ver...

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Das große amerikanische Antikriegsepos - ausgezeichnet mit dem PEN/Faulkner Award E.L. Doctorow erzählt von Liebe in Zeiten der Gewalt, von Idealen im Mahlstrom der Schlacht und vom Krieg als alles verschlingendem Ungeheuer - gestern wie heute. Ei...

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»Ein mitreiÿendes Meisterwerk über die berühmten Einsiedler.« Publishers WeeklyInspiriert durch eine wahre Geschichte erzÿhlt E.L. Doctorow von den Brüdern Homer und Langley, die ihr Haus an der New Yorker Fifth Avenue mit Objekten ihrer Sa...

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Brillante Erzÿhlungen des Altmeisters der amerikanischen GegenwartsliteraturVon »Ragtime« und »Billy Bathgate« über »Der Marsch« bis hin zu »Homer und Langley«: E.L. Doctorow gehört zu den ganz Groÿen der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliter...

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»Es gibt keine Fiktion oder Nicht-Fiktion ? es gibt nur das Erzÿhlen.« E.L. DoctorowIn seinem neuen Roman nimmt uns E.L. Doctorow, einer der ganz Groÿen der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Literatur, mit auf eine Reise in das Bewusstsein eine...

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New York, 1871.Kriegsgewinnler und Neureiche geben nach dem siegreichen Bürgerkrieg im Leben der Stadt den Ton an. Industrie und Banken florieren, und die Stadt ist dabei, zu einer führenden Metropole in der Welt zu werden. In dieser brodelnden ...

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ÿn New Yorkul anilor ?30, Billy Bathgate, un pu?ti de cincisprezece ani din Bronx, p?trunde ÿn banda lui Schultz Olandezul, un gangster extrem de charismatic. Billy este fascinat de lumea violent? ?i corupt? a lui Schultz, o lume a banilor, a se...

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Collyerin erakkoveljesten makaaberista kuolemasta 1947 tuli välittömästi amerikkalainen legenda, mutta mitä tapahtui ennen sitä? Tositarinaan perustuva romaani on havahduttava kuvaus eksentristen veljesten vaiheista, materialismin mahdista ja 1900...

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