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E.L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow's novels include The March, City of God, The Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, and Billy Bathgate. His work has been published in thirty-two languages. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. E. L. Doctorow lives in New York.

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Birth date: 1931-01-06

Died: 2015-07-21

Website: www.eldoctorow.com

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E.L. Doctorow's Books

Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis, E.L. Doctorow

The Big Money - John Dos Passos, E.L. Doctorow

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction - Edward P. Jones, John Updike, Edmund White, Annie Proulx, E.L. Doctorow, Mary Gaitskill, Elizabeth McCracken, Lydia Davis, Russell Banks, George Saunders, Tim O'Brien, Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Jhumpa Lah

All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories - E.L. Doctorow

The Call of the Wild/White Fang/To Build a Fire - Jack London, E.L. Doctorow

The Best American Short Stories 2000 - E.L. Doctorow, Katrina Kenison

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Sheila's Reads rated it

10 years ago

text WORLD'S FAIR by E. L. DOCTOROW

The 1930's through a child's eyes. I liked Edgar's stories. He lets us know what he sees and feels. He even admits to not understanding it all. HIs parents are typical parents--fighting with each other, at times happy, at times worried, at times angry. I loved his description of the World's Fair. Th...

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moving under skies rated it

10 years ago

text Homer & Langley

I am a big fan of roughly half of Doctorow's work. Though this one started with a sense of greatness, ultimately it falls in line with the least favored half of his oeuvre for me. Like several others reviewers, I was disenchanted by Doctorow's blatant changes to the Collyer brothers' story. The trut...

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Denise rated it

10 years ago

text Andrew's Brain

We're all Pretenders, Doctor, even you. Especially you. Why are you smiling? Pretending is the brain's work. It's what it does. The brain can even pretend not to be itself. There has got to be someone somewhere that will love this book but unfortunately I am not that person. Immediately when I fini...

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Thewanderingjew rated it

11 years ago

text It was interesting, but didn't seem to have much of a purpose, other than perhaps that we are all prisoners of our own minds!

I listened to this audio in one sitting, trying to understand it. It was short, just over three hours. I replayed several parts over and over, trying to understand the point. I fear I missed some of it. A man is speaking to what appears to be a psychiatrist, but could just as easily have been an ima...

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Chew & Digest Books rated it

11 years ago

text Andrew's Brain

One of my most painful to listen to audiobooks ever and it wasn't the narrator. The blurb says "we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves." and the book did none of this for me. It left me wanting to smack Andrew...

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