We look forward to seeing you on your next visit to the library. Find a location near you.

All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for

Published:
Random House Publishing Group 2011
Status:
Available from OverDrive

Description

From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world.” Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous classics, All the Time in the World is resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow.

Also in This Series

Formats

Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

More Copies In LINK+

Loading LINK+ Copies...

More Details

Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
03/22/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780679604624
ASIN:
B004IK8PZA

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

E.L. Doctorow. (2011). All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

E.L. Doctorow. 2011. All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

E.L. Doctorow, All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

MLA Citation (style guide)

E.L. Doctorow. All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Copy Details

LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection11

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
744eebfd-652e-c6a7-a4c3-fb0ca241dece
Go To Grouped Work

QR Code

API Extraction Dates

Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 17:18:44
Date Updated:
Dec 06, 2020 02:44:41
Last Metadata Check:
Nov 03, 2024 09:55:36
Last Metadata Change:
Oct 06, 2024 06:36:48
Last Availability Check:
Nov 03, 2024 09:55:39
Last Availability Change:
Oct 18, 2023 08:40:49
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Nov 04, 2024 02:11:00

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/C52/58D/6B/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/C52/58D/6B/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679604624
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 208431
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679604624
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B004IK8PZA
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 208431
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679604624
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 208431
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 1400069637
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: E.L. Doctorow
title
All the Time in the World
dateAdded
2011-06-24T14:42:21.083-04:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=479846
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
          • id: 1151
sortTitle
All the Time in the World New and Selected Stories
crossRefId
479846
subtitle
New and Selected Stories
id
c5258d6b-cb42-4b61-95e2-dff5bdf3cc61
starRating
3.2

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: AlltheTimeintheWorld_9780679604624_479846
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 2377155
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679604624
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 208431
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 3/22/2011
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C52/58D/6B/AlltheTimeintheWorldNewandSelectedSto9780679604624.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: AlltheTimeintheWorld_479846
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 208431
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B004IK8PZA
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 3/22/2011
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C52/58D/6B/AlltheTimeintheWorldNewandSelectedSto9780679604624.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: AlltheTimeintheWorld_9780679604624_479846
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679604624
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 208431
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 3/22/2011
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C52/58D/6B/AlltheTimeintheWorldNewandSelectedSto9780679604624.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: literary fiction
      • value: Anthologies
      • value: Urban Fiction
      • value: contemporary fiction
      • value: Fiction
      • value: short story collections
      • value: novels
      • value: classic
      • value: anthology
      • value: Collection
      • value: 20th Century
      • value: Short Stories
      • value: feminism
      • value: americana
      • value: Essays
      • value: Music
      • value: literature
      • value: American Literature
      • value: fiction books
      • value: Literary
      • value: urban books
      • value: realistic fiction
      • value: short stories collections
      • value: short story anthology
      • value: realistic fiction books
      • value: long story short
      • value: books fiction
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Doctorow, E.L.
      • bioText: E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, City of God, The March, Homer & Langley, and Andrew’s Brain. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/ Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. In 2014 he was honored with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
      • name: E.L. Doctorow
imprint
Random House
publishDate
2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
All the Time in the World
fullDescription
From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world.” Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous classics, All the Time in the World is resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow.
reviews
      • premium: False
      • source: TIME OUT NEW YORK
      • content: "This history lover's nuanced collection of stories shouldn't be overlooked....delightfully idiosyncratic...Doctorow has always known that whether we act out of love, fear or necessity, these are the imperatives that drive our national consciousness."
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
      • content:

        March 14, 2011
        It's best to be suspicious when a writer's topic is said to be America, but in the case of Doctorow, the claim has merit. The much lauded (three Pulitzer Prize nominations, three-time National Book Critics Circle Award winner) Doctorow writes novels—including Ragtime, World's Fair, and Billy Bathgate—that paint America in all its shine and sleaze. And, though on a smaller canvas, his short stories possess the same breadth. These stories—half of which have appeared in other collections, half collected for the first time, and one making its debut—move from the Bronx to the Midwest, from city to suburb, and feature among other characters criminals, upstanding citizens gone temporarily feral, religious cultists, and a Dylanesque songwriter who poetically writes his way through an alternate and wholly recognizable American history. The stories aren't equally strong—there's awkward dialogue in some, an unconvincing premise in "Wakefield," an ending that feels tacked on to the otherwise strong "Walter John Harmon" and, in the title story, strangeness that seems to be there for its own sake. But the strongest—"A House on the Plains," "The Writer in the Family," "Assimilation," and "Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate"—cover an expansive terrain and combine the compact satisfactions of short fiction with a leisurely refusal to hurry.

      • premium: True
      • source: Kirkus
      • content:

        March 1, 2011

        An eclectic selection of shorter fiction from a veteran author more renowned for his novels.

        Following what was widely considered one of his better recent novels (Homer & Langley, 2009), the New York writer best known for his interweave of fact and fiction in Ragtime (1975) does the authorial equivalent of a closet cleaning with a dozen stories that find him adopting a variety of narrative voices and perspectives. Seven of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker, and one of those ("Heist") was later incorporated into the novel City of God (2000)Another, "Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate," reads like an addendum to Billy Bathgate (1989), like the notes to a collection of songs by the protagonist, each a paragraph long (though one paragraph extends over five pages), likely inscrutable to those unfamiliar with the novel. Yet there is plenty of first-rate work here to please Doctorow fans and others who appreciate a well-told story. Many of them have a spiritual dimension, and the most provocative of these is "Walter John Harmon," the testament of a lawyer involved with a religious cult and his growing suspicions that the unlikely prophet has designs on the narrator's wife. The shortest story, "Willi," ranks with the most powerful, as an older man recalls a boyhood experience in which a Whitmanesque rapture over the joys of being alive in nature proceeded to a discovery of his mother's affair, and the uneasy mixture of betrayal and desire his mother's sexuality elicited. "Jolene: A Life" strays far from Doctorow's usual territory, in its narrative of a poor Southern girl whose attractiveness toward the wrong kind of men proves a curse. And while the concluding title story would seem to place the fiction in more familiar terrain, its Manhattan metaphysics are more reminiscent of Paul Auster's New York than Doctorow's.

        A warm-up volume for the "collected stories" that will eventually, inevitably follow.

        (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

      • premium: True
      • source: Library Journal
      • content:

        March 15, 2011

        In his preface to this collection of 12 stories, some new and some familiar, Doctorow explains that while a novel begins with an image, a story begins with a situation. The situations here are diverse, with settings both urban and suburban, contemporary and historical, but the organizing principle is neither time nor space. Because each story has its "own particular light," explains Doctorow, he has "banded the stories in packets of similar mental light." Thus, the opening story, "Wakefield," about a man who spends several months hiding out on his own property for no apparent reason, is followed by another tale of suburban uneasiness, "Edgemont Drive." In "Assimilation," a busboy gets hooked into marrying the boss's late uncle's daughter from the home country, while "Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate" shows the struggle to assimilate in an earlier era. Coming next, "Heist" and "Walter John Harmon" deal with issues of corrupted faith. As one would expect, each situation is captured perfectly in smooth and literate language, and Doctorow gets off some wonderful zingers: "The paperback's world is...dependable in its punishments," muses a defeated priest. "More than I can say for Yours." VERDICT A wonderful compendium, even for those who have read Doctorow exhaustively, because the organization is so illuminating. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/10.]--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

        Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
      • source: Booklist
      • content:

        March 1, 2011
        Virtuoso Doctorow is revered for his grandly dimensional novels, but he is also a superlative and transfixing short story writer. The incandescent new stories and forever stunning vintage talessome from Lives of the Poets (1984), others from Sweet Land Stories (2004)that Doctorow selected for this powerhouse collection portray psychological outliers on the edge of either liberation or an abyss. Doctorow is rightfully treasured for his social acuity and fluency in urban life, but he is also a penetrating observer of nature and our concealed primal selves. Our hunters instinct and the symbiotic dance between predator and prey underlies Wakefield, in which a married lawyer and father of twins suddenly turns feral, living on the prowl in the wild behind his Victorian home, and also Assimilation, a ravishing tale of mobsters, brothers, and a green-card marriage. Elsewhere we meet a vulnerable young teacher in a dying town and a big-city runner who escapes into visions of the wilds of Mongolia. Like iron trellises wreathed with flowering vines, Doctorows complex and masterful tales of the strangeness, pain, and beauty of life are wise and resplendent. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A landmark collection from a preeminent and popular writer who elevates the best-seller lists with each new book.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

popularity
138
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/c5258d6b-cb42-4b61-95e2-dff5bdf3cc61/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    • shareInLibby:
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=ZlIHAMShdiw
        • type: text/HTML
id
c5258d6b-cb42-4b61-95e2-dff5bdf3cc61
starRating
3.2
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/C52/58D/6B/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/C52/58D/6B/{C5258D6B-CB42-4B61-95E2-DFF5BDF3CC61}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
      • value: Short Stories
publishDateText
03/22/2011
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781400069637
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world.” Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous classics, All the Time in the World is resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow.
sortTitle
All the Time in the World New and Selected Stories
crossRefId
479846
subtitle
New and Selected Stories
publisher
Random House Publishing Group
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC019000
      • description: Fiction / Literary
      • code: FIC029000
      • description: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
      • code: FIC048000
      • description: Fiction / Urban & Street Lit