![]() ![]() Talking about style, Doctorow discusses his experiments with shifting points of view and unreliable narrators as part of the modernist heritage to which readers have become accustomed. Within this collection Doctorow explores the themes of his work not only in the contexts of national and literary history but also in terms of disturbing trends in contemporary American culture. ![]() In his work the American dream and the values his characters try to live by turn to madness and ashes. Whatever the setting or time period, Doctorow's characters spark an unparalleled urgency in the novelist's recreations of history. Morris has gathered over twenty of the most revelatory interviews with the acclaimed author of Ragtime, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and other novels, plays, and short stories. ![]() Doctorow told Paul Levine, "History written by historians is clearly insufficient." Doctorow's novels carry out that conviction by imagining the great moments of American history-the Old West, the gilded age, the Depression, the cold war-as backdrops for tales of excruciating moral pain and injustice in America. ![]()
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