Edgar Lawrence Doctorow

Saul Karoo is a successful Hollywood script doctor, a fixer of flawed films, He is fifty, overweight, a heavy drinker and chain smoker. He is at an age when things break down, but he has not health insurance. His separation from his wife, Dianah, has become another form of marriage. His relationship with his son, …

Loon Lake is a 1980 novel by E. L. Doctorow. The plot of the novel is mostly set on Loon Lake in the Adirondacks during the Depression. The novel is one of the more experimental works of Doctorow, incorporating a great variety of different techniques, many of which are used for preventing the reader from an easy …

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and …

Ragtime je román amerického spisovatele Edgara Lawrence Doctorowa, kniha byla vydána roku 1975, česky 1982. Mnohavrstnatý román byl roku 1981 zfilmován Milošem Formanem. Mnohovrstevný děj historické fikce se odehrává v letech 1902-1914 v USA, v období ekonomického rozmachu a velké migrace obyvatelstva. V tomto období …