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Lives of the poets : six stories and a novella / E.L. Doctorow.
LIBRA PS3554.O3 L5 1997 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Plume, 1997.
- Summary:
- A son is set the task of concealing his father's death; a drowned child is callously handled by rescuers; a lonely schoolteacher is shot by a hunter; a boy witnesses his mother's act of infidelity; a car explosion kills a foreign schoolgirl; and the middle-aged author of these tales depicts his own consciousness. In a perceptive work about a writer of stories, acclaimed author E.L. Doctorow opens to the reader the creative imagination of a writer.
- Contents:
- The writer in the family
- The water works
- Willi
- The hunter
- The foreign legation
- The leather man
- Lives of the poets.
- ISBN:
- 0452278791
- 9780452278790
- OCLC:
- 36621931
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