E. L. Doctorow Ordre des livres

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. 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.

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. Andrew’s Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.”

Brillante Erzählungen des Altmeisters der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur Von »Ragtime« und »Billy Bathgate« über »Der Marsch« bis hin zu »Homer und Langley«: E. L. Doctorow gehört zu den ganz Großen der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Seine hier gesammelten Erzählungen kreisen um Menschen, die außerhalb der Gesellschaft stehen oder sich im Konflikt mit ihrer Umgebung befinden und zeigen Doctorow in seiner ganzen Meisterschaft. Der Band versammelt sechs Glanzstücke aus Doctorows bisheriger Karriere als Meister der kurzen Form, sozusagen die Klassiker, und sechs bisher unveröffentlichte Erzählungen. Ein Mann verabschiedet sich am Ende eines ganz normalen Arbeitstages von seiner Upper-Middle-Class-Existenz und beginnt, in demselben wohlhabenden Vorort, in dem er mit seiner Familie lebte, zu betteln und zu plündern. Ein College-Absolvent nimmt aus einer Laune heraus einen Job als Tellerwäscher an und wird in kriminelle Machenschaften verwickelt, als er einer Scheinehe zustimmt. Die ohnehin komplizierte Beziehung eines Ehepaares verschärft sich, als ein Fremder in ihrem Haus auftaucht und behauptet, dort aufgewachsen zu sein. Ein Großstädter argwöhnt auf seiner morgendlichen Joggingrunde, dass die Stadt in der er lebt, über Nacht eine andere geworden ist. Diese brillante Mischung aus Geheimnis, Spannung und ethisch-moralischen Fragen zeichnet alle hier versammelten Erzählungen von Doctorow aus.

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley , the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world”.A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper-middle-class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.A college graduate takes a dishwasher’s job on a whim, and becomes entangled in a criminal enterprise after agreeing to marry a beautiful immigrant for money.A husband and wife’s tense relationship is exacerbated when a stranger enters their home and claims to have grown up there.An urbanite out on his morning run suspects that the city in which he’s lived all his life has transmogrified into another city altogether.These are among the wide-ranging creations in this stunning collection, resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow. Containing six unforgettable stories that have 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.

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel , World’s Fair , and The March , the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley , this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers–the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers–wars, political movements, technological advances–and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians...and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York’s fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.

Die Kehrseite des amerikanischen Traums – meisterhafte Erzählungen von E. L. Doctorow Fünf Erzählungen, die das 'Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten' in all seiner Beschränktheit zeigen – ob in der Provinz oder in der Stadt. Das Weiße Haus versucht, den Fund einer Kinderleiche auf dem Gelände zu vertuschen, was einen FBI-Agenten zu eigenen Untersuchungen veranlasst; Jolene macht mit 16 einen Fehler, den sie ihr ganzes Leben bereuen soll, und in einem Farmhaus in Illinois gehen die seltsamsten Dinge vor sich. Wir lesen von den moralischen Gedanken eines Paars, das sich mit einem gekidnappten Baby auf der Flucht befindet, und von der haarsträubenden Naivität eines Rechtsanwalts in einer religiösen Sekte. Geschichten von den Verlierern in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft: Menschen, die um ihre Existenz und ihre Würde kämpfen müssen. Die Geschichten wurden mehrfach ausgezeichnet und von der amerikanischen Kritik gefeiert.

CITY OF GOD begins in mystery: the large brass cross behind the altar of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in lower Manhattan has disappeared ... and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side. The church's maverick rector and young rabbinical couple who lead the synagogue set about attempting to learn who the vandals are who have committed this strange double act of desecration and to what purpose, but their joint clerical investigation only deepens the mystery. A writer alerted to the story by a newspaper article befriends the priest and the rabbis and find that their struggles with their respective traditions are relevant to the case. In fact, as the narrative advances and the story broadens, more and more people are implicated in what may be the elusive prophecy of a new American culture. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, the book opens into a multi-voiced narrative that incorporates the monumental historical events and predominating ideas of our age.