E. L. Doctorow – författare

Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort in settled times, their home a fin-de-siècle mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the War in Europe with his lungs seared by gas, and when the death of their parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918 leaves the brothers orphaned, they seem perilously ill-equipped to deal with the new era.

Around Central Park carriages give way to motor cars, Prohibition to free love, but Homer and Langley adapt: their townhouse fills and empties and fills again, with servants, lodgers, tea-dancers and gangsters. They are mocked and spied on, embraced by hippies and besieged by bailiffs, but as the world turns ever more incomprehensible Homer and Langley hold fast to their principles of self-reliance, courage, kindness and love, and they endure.

Includes ''Wakefield'', which is now a major motion picture starring Bryan Cranston.A wedge is driven between a husband and wife when a mysterious strangerarrives, claiming to have grown up in their home. After agreeing to marry abeautiful, headstrong Russian immigrant in exchange for a promotion, a bus boyturned waiter finds himself entangled in a web of organized crime. A strangeconfluence of circumstances at the end of an ordinary workday causes a man togo off the grid, living off what he can forage in the same affluent suburb where heonce lived comfortably with his family. These and the other mesmerizing works ofshort fiction in this collection are resonant with the mystery, tension, beauty, andinsight that distinguish E. L. Doctorow''s novels. Containing six new stories thathave never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous Doctorow classics,All the Time in the World affords us another opportunity to savor the genius of this American master.

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.

Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves.

Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times-funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound.