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Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. As he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves.

A psychological tale recounts the experiences of Andrew, who confesses to an unknown recipient the memory- and truth-challenging events, loves, and tragedies that have led him to a mysterious act.

Brillante Erzählungen des Altmeisters der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur Von »Ragtime« und »Billy Bathgate« über »Der Marsch« bis hin zu »Homer und Langley«: E. L. Doctorow gehört zu den ganz Großen der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Seine hier gesammelten Erzählungen kreisen um Menschen, die außerhalb der Gesellschaft stehen oder sich im Konflikt mit ihrer Umgebung befinden und zeigen Doctorow in seiner ganzen Meisterschaft. Der Band versammelt sechs Glanzstücke aus Doctorows bisheriger Karriere als Meister der kurzen Form, sozusagen die Klassiker, und sechs bisher unveröffentlichte Erzählungen. Ein Mann verabschiedet sich am Ende eines ganz normalen Arbeitstages von seiner Upper-Middle-Class-Existenz und beginnt, in demselben wohlhabenden Vorort, in dem er mit seiner Familie lebte, zu betteln und zu plündern. Ein College-Absolvent nimmt aus einer Laune heraus einen Job als Tellerwäscher an und wird in kriminelle Machenschaften verwickelt, als er einer Scheinehe zustimmt. Die ohnehin komplizierte Beziehung eines Ehepaares verschärft sich, als ein Fremder in ihrem Haus auftaucht und behauptet, dort aufgewachsen zu sein. Ein Großstädter argwöhnt auf seiner morgendlichen Joggingrunde, dass die Stadt in der er lebt, über Nacht eine andere geworden ist. Diese brillante Mischung aus Geheimnis, Spannung und ethisch-moralischen Fragen zeichnet alle hier versammelten Erzählungen von Doctorow aus.

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley , the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world”.A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper-middle-class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.A college graduate takes a dishwasher’s job on a whim, and becomes entangled in a criminal enterprise after agreeing to marry a beautiful immigrant for money.A husband and wife’s tense relationship is exacerbated when a stranger enters their home and claims to have grown up there.An urbanite out on his morning run suspects that the city in which he’s lived all his life has transmogrified into another city altogether.These are among the wide-ranging creations in this stunning collection, resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow. Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous Doctorow classics, All the Time in the World affords us another opportunity to savor the genius of this American master.

En 1861 estalló en Estados Unidos la Guerra de Secesión, que enfrentó a los estados del Sur, confederados, y los del Norte, unionistas. Tres años después, en 1864, tras quemar Atlanta, el general unionista Sherman inició su marcha hacia el mar.Un ejército de 60.000 soldados, seguidos por miles de esclavos negros liberados, atravesaron el estado de Georgia hasta las Carolinas. Junto a ellos, las damas sureñas que escapaban de las plantaciones con sus objetos valiosos, sus sirvientes y sus labores de punto, los prisioneros, los advenedizos: todo un mundo flotante que se deslizaba arrasando con todo a su paso.

A dazzling collection of short works crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E.L. Doctorow is famous

In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain--sketches for stories, accounts of his love affairs, riffs on the meanings of popular songs, ideas for movies, obsessions with cosmic processes. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age. But now he has found a story he thinks may become his next novel: The large brass cross that hung behind the altar of St. Timothy's, a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan, has disappeared...and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, on the Upper West Side. The church's maverick rector and the young woman rabbi who leads the synagogue are trying to learn who committed this strange double act of desecration and why. Befriending them, the novelist finds that their struggles with their respective traditions are relevant to the case. Into his workbook go his taped interviews, insights, preliminary drafts...and as he joins the clerics in pursuit of the mystery, it broadens to implicate a large cast of vividly drawn characters--including scientists, war veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, New York Times reporters, filmmakers, and crooners--in what proves to be a quest for an authentic spirituality at the end of this tortured century. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York, this dazzlingly inventive masterwork emerges as the American novel readers have been thirsting for: a defining document of our times, a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first. From the Hardcover edition.