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Lives of the Poets

A Novella and Six Stories

A Novella and Six Stories

A Novella and Six Stories

By E.L. Doctorow

By E.L. Doctorow

By E.L. Doctorow

By E.L. Doctorow

By E.L. Doctorow
Read by Jesse Bernstein and John Rubinstein

By E.L. Doctorow
Read by Jesse Bernstein and John Rubinstein

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Jun 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780812981186

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    About Lives of the Poets

    Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is destroyed by infidelity. In “The Foreign Legation,” a girl and an act of political anarchy collide with devastating results. These and other stories flow into the novella “Lives of the Poets,” in which the images and themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator’s unsparing confessions about his own mind, offering a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.

    About Lives of the Poets

    Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is destroyed by infidelity. In “The Foreign Legation,” a girl and an act of political anarchy collide with devastating results. These and other stories flow into the novella “Lives of the Poets,” in which the images and themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator’s unsparing confessions about his own mind, offering a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.

    About Lives of the Poets

    Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is destroyed by infidelity. In “The Foreign Legation,” a girl and an act of political anarchy collide with devastating results. These and other stories flow into the novella “Lives of the Poets,” in which the images and themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator’s unsparing confessions about his own mind, offering a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.

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    Doctorow: Collected Stories
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    City of God
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    See all books by E.L. Doctorow

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    Andrew's Brain
    City of God
    All the Time in the World
    Drinks Before Dinner
    See all books by E.L. Doctorow

    About E.L. Doctorow

    E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Andrew’s Brain, Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the… More about E.L. Doctorow

    About E.L. Doctorow

    E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Andrew’s Brain, Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the… More about E.L. Doctorow

    About E.L. Doctorow

    E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Andrew’s Brain, Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the… More about E.L. Doctorow

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Jun 29, 2010 | 160 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812981186

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Random House
    Dec 01, 2010 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780307767394

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 18, 2014 | 293 Minutes | ISBN 9780804163866

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    Praise

    “Extraordinary beauty and power . . . a book to fall in love with.”—Chicago Tribune Book World
     
    “Better than any fiction I know, Lives of the Poets illuminates the sources from which fiction springs.”—Newsweek
     
    “Doctorow is an impeccable stylist, a man who writes with exceptional clarity and precision.”—Publishers Weekly
     
    “Invaluable . . . Doctorow’s subtlest work of fiction.”—New York Times Book Review

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