Sweet land stories
By: E.L. Doctorow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these 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 townhouse 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"), and sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages to a kind of bruised but resolute independence ("Jolene: A Life"). And in "Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden", you will witness the crisis of a special agent of the FBI finding himself at a personal crossroads while investigating a grave breach of White House security."--BOOK JACKET.
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.