by E.L. Doctorow
Well. Picked it up and started reading and I would just like to note that the first dozen pages or so are... slightly less bleak than Threads, and more horrible.(It made me think of the story that Shane Hensley tells about the first Deadlands game--or game that would become Deadlands, too. It does...
“One day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.” I read several Doctorows back in the late 1980s and never really clicked with him. His writing was fine; i...
E. L. Doctorow’s debut is a short, intense novel of the early frontier. The small town of Hard Times is attacked by outlaws, but the citizens rebuild, always with a wary eye out for the return of the outlaws. Welcome to Hard Times shows us the early promise of Doctorow’s award winning career.
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