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Doctorow's skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in the words of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"a dark moral tale . . . an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Startling and spellbinding . . . The waters that lave the narrative all run to the great confluence, where the deepest issues of life and death are borne along on the swift, sure vessel of  Doctorow's] poetic imagination.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hypnotic . . . a dazzling romp, an extraordinary read, given strength and grace by the telling, by the poetic voice and controlled cynical lyricism of its streetwise and world-weary narrator.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A gem of a novel, intimate as chamber music . . . a thriller guaranteed to leave readers with residual chills and shudders.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Enthralling . . . a story of debauchery and redemption that is spellbinding from first page to last.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An immense, extraordinary achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. L. Doctorow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812978193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e70611 \/ Waterworks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. L. Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e's works of fiction include \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, City of God, The March, Homer \u0026amp; Langley, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAndrew's Brain. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"E. L. 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Doctorow's trademark comes to triumphant fruition in \u003cb\u003eBilly Bathgate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ea peerless coming-of-age tale and one of Doctorow's boldest and most beloved bestsellers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. L. Doctorow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812981179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. L. 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It is a life that enrages him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a confession of his most intimate relationships--with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents' innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel's interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case--lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country--its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Daniel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. L. 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Here Joe's fate will play out in this powerful story of ambition, aggression, and identity. Loon Lake is another stunning achievement of this acclaimed author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Powerful . . . [a] complex and haunting meditation on modern American history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A genuine thriller . . . a marvelous exploration of the complexities and contradictions of the American dream . . . Not under any circumstances would we reveal the truly shattering climax.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A dazzling performance . . . 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