Sweet land stories
By: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780349120195
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs
Description: "These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E.L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wilson'), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ('Walter John Harmon'), sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages ('Jolene: A Life'), and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White House Security ('Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden'). Comprised in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers."--Book cover.
Table of contents: title: A house on the plains; title: Baby Wilson; title: Jolene : a life; title: Walter John Harmon; title: Child, dead, in the rose garden.