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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, E.L. DoctorowISBN 0195101367 (0-19-510136-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:In his introduction, E.L. Doctorow rightly points out that "ever since its publication in 1876, children have been able to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer with a sense of recognition for the feelings of childhood truly rendered: how Tom finds solace for his unjust treatment at the hands of Aunt Polly by dreaming of running away; or how he loves Becky Thatcher, the sort of simpering little blond girl all boys love, and how he does the absolutely right thing in lying and taking her punishment in school to protect her; or how he and his friends pretend to be pirates or the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, accurately interrupting their scenarios with arguments about who plays what part and what everyone must say and how they must fight and when they must die." Tom Sawyer is surely among America's undisputed contributions to the world's cast of unforgettable characters. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, E.L. DoctorowISBN 0195114051 (0-19-511405-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Billy Bathgateby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0060975954 (0-06-097595-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Bathgate'Book summary:In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left them long ago, Billy is captivated by the world of money, sex, and high society the charismatic Schultz has to offer. But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend. Relive this story through the title character's driving narrative, a child's thoughts and feelings filtered through the sensibilities of an adult, and the result is E.L. Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life. Converging mythology and history, one of America's most admired authors has captured the romance of gangsters and criminal enterprise that continues to fascinate the American psyche today. [via]
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- Billy Bathgate: ISBN 0061000078 (0-06-100007-8)
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The Book of Danielby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0141188189 (0-14-118818-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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City of Godby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0316854700 (0-316-85470-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of God'Book summary:You want ambition? E.L. Doctorow's City of God starts off not merely with a bang but with the big bang itself, that "great expansive flowering, a silent flash into being in a second or two of the entire outrushing universe." It doesn't, to be sure, remain on this cosmic plane throughout. There's a mystery here, along with a romance, a chilling Holocaust narrative, and a deep-focus portrait of fin-de-siècle Manhattan--not to mention cameo appearances by that Holy Trinity of contemporary mythmaking: Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frank Sinatra. But while the author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate is no slacker when it comes to entertainment, he has more in mind this time around. Even the title, with its Augustinian overtones, tips us off to the author's preoccupation with belief, human consciousness, and "our wrecked romance with God."
Let's return, however, to that mystery. In the early pages of the novel, an enormous brass cross is pilfered from a church on the Lower East Side. Father Thomas Pemberton of St. Timothy's promptly sets off in search of it, dubbing himself the Divinity Detective. Yet he suspects from the start that this is no ordinary theft, with no ordinary solution:
So now these people, whoever they are, have lifted our cross. It bothered me at first. But now I'm beginning to see it differently. That whoever stole the cross had to do it. And wouldn't that be blessed? Christ going where He is needed?
Where He seems to be needed is the opposite side of the ecumenical aisle. The cross turns up on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, a tiny Manhattan institution to which Pemberton has clearly been led by fate. His encounter with the synagogue's rabbinical duo--a husband-and-wife team struggling to reclaim a pre-scriptural state of "unmediated awe"--transforms his life. It also destroys what's left of his conventional Christian belief. Augustine's spin on original sin, for example, now strikes him as "a nifty little act of deconstruction--passing it on to the children, like HIV." And as his relationship with Judaism deepens, he discards the clerical collar altogether and embarks upon a penitential exploration of the Holocaust--which in turn allows Doctorow to loop his narrative back and forth between several generations of (mostly) Jew and Gentile.Astonishingly enough, the foregoing only scratches the surface of City of God. This marvelous hybrid also includes a metafictional framework (i.e., an author-as-character with a rather Doctorovian resume), an ongoing rumination on city life, and a dozen other major strands and minor players. There are, not surprisingly, a number of misfires. For example, Doctorow has long been interested in the power of American popular song--in the way that, say, Gershwin's work has come to function as a kind of secular hymnal. Yet the author's postmodernist variations on the standards, which appear at regular intervals throughout the novel under the ominous rubric of "The Midrash Jazz Quartet Plays the Standards," are jaw-droppingly awful. One might also argue that the book is too centrifugal, too devoted to the storytelling principle of the big bang. Still, there is an undeniable power to the way Doctorow makes his fictional worlds collide, setting off all manner of historical and philosophical conflagrations. At one point he imagines "the totality of intimate human narrations / composing a hymn to enlightenment / if that were possible." A tall order, yes. But despite its occasional longueurs, City of God suggests that it's possible indeed. --James Marcus [via]
Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamalby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0312283172 (0-312-28317-2)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal'Book summary:Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of three well-received books and many essays. He is also a death-row inmate, awaiting execution in Pennsylvania for allegedly killing a police officer in 1981. For many around the world, he is an inspired leader and the centerpiece to a revived progressive movement critical of our justice system and escalating global economic inequities. For others, he is a cold-blooded killer who has duped millions, including a vast array of Hollywood celebrities, writers, intellectuals and world political leaders, into believing that he is a political prisoner falsely imprisoned. Whatever the outlook, he and his case have become a flashpoint in the ever-raging debate over capital punishment in this country and a symbol of what is wrong with our criminal justice system.[via]
Here, for the first time, the story of Mumia Abu-Jamal's trial and his struggle to gain his freedom has been told. Executing Justice takes us inside the courtroom where a fierce and skilled prosecutor wove a damning narrative of a young black radical who brutally murdered a young white police officer in the red-light district of Philadelphia, and then later boasted about the killing. It was, the prosecutor said, the strongest murder case he's ever tried. Daniel R. Williams, defense lawyer and chief legal strategist for Mumia Abu-Jamal, invites us to ask: why has this case engendered such enormous attention and aroused the passions of people worldwide?
Executing Justice is the story of how the death penalty really works in this countrynot from the perspective of appellate judges, academics, or politicians who pontificate about the pros and cons of capital punishment, but from ground zero, within the pit of the courtroom where the war over life and death is fought. It is also a story of one of the most remarkable trials in our history. Above all, Executing Justice is an honest, at times confessional, book that seeks not to preach, but to raise questions about what we expect from our legal system and the depth of our commitment to capital punishment as a form of executing justice.More editions of Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal:
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992by E.L. DoctorowISBN 0060976365 (0-06-097636-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Storiesby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0330291769 (0-330-29176-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Loon Lakeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0330264265 (0-330-26426-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Marchby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0316731986 (0-316-73198-6)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0141188170 (0-14-118817-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Waterworksby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0330335480 (0-330-33548-0)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Welcome to Hard Timesby E.L. DoctorowISBN 033025085X (0-330-25085-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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World's Fairby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0330297120 (0-330-29712-0)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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