E.L. Doctorow. (2011). All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Unabridged Books on Tape.

E.L. Doctorow. 2011. All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Books on Tape.

E.L. Doctorow, All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Books on Tape, 2011.

E.L. Doctorow. All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2011.

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   • 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.
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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.

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   • source: WALL STREET JOURNAL
   • content: "The new and previously published stories in All the Time in the World are a reminder that, for decades, Mr. Doctorow has been a first-rate artist in the short form, able to coax forth readerly empathy for almost all his creations...Mr. Doctorow is now 80, and as the assessments of his long career commence, it is clear that he has been, like his characters, a man apart from his contemporaries. The stories of All the Time in the World do not seem to belong to any school or style but to emanate from his own solitary visions."
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   • source: CHICAGO TRIBUNE
   • content: "Wonderful descriptions [and] gorgeous sentences...seem to fall effortlessly from Doctorow's fingertips....Doctorow's stories generally come back to the melancholy reality of imminent doom -- yet they are rarely dreary and can be, in fact, quite funny. His characters, trapped as they are, manage to make a ragged music by rattling their chains."
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   • source: MIAMI HERALD
   • content: "Distinctive, sharply focused, glistening with crisp language....Wherever they take place, these memorable stories reflect a novelist's intimate understanding of human frailty and penchant for delusion....[Doctorow] is also keenly alert to the demands of short fiction, the blend of nuance and straightforwardness that makes stories hum with resonance and vitality...Savor All the Time in the World for its elegance, its intuition and for Doctorow's understanding of the complexity of the human drama."
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   • source: SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
   • content: "Egoless, frank, spontaneous and altogether wonderful."
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   • source: PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
   • content: "Doctorow seems telepathic in his ability to channel so many different kinds of characters - men and women from a wide range of eras, landscapes, ethnicities. This virtuosity is one reason he's such a revered writer, though he has other skills, too...As ever, Doctorow has captured the mood of our time and rendered it in compelling fiction."
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   • 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."
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   • source: MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
   • content: "First rate...Never as simple as they seem on the surface, his stories are full of paradox and good humor with a sometimes caustic underbelly; they're absurd in a funny sort of way. He reveals the quirks of our society in the kind of stories others can only aspire to write."
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   • source: PORTLAND OREGONIAN
   • content: "Tales of dysfunction, disintegration tempered with wit...Doctorow prefaces the new collection by saying he doesn't expect readers to see the 'light' that guided his selection and sequencing of the stories, but it shines vividly and creates a distinctive, sometimes disturbing constellation"
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   • source: RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
   • content: "When its soulful writing and vagrant characters are read in the context of this powerful impression, All the Time in the World feels, more often than not, like a haunting collection of ghost stories."
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    • content: As Doctorow points out in his introduction, the conception of a story differs greatly from that of a novel. The writing skills differ as well, a reality that makes it possible to understand how the author of such greats as RAGTIME and WELCOME TO HARD TIMES could produce such a disappointing collection as this. The three narrators do what they can with the generally subdued, alienated characters, but when passion is inferential, there's only so much a narrator can do. Some of these characters appear in the novels BILLY BATHGATE and CITY OF GOD; after much revision and expansion they are engaging. But here they're not, and the narration of the stories cannot transcend the limitations of the text. D.M.H. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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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.
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