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The Book of Daniel

E. L. Doctorow

FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment, and after a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like millions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself in the Vietnam War. A stunning fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, The Book of Daniel is an intensely moving tale of political martyrdom and the search for meaning.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : APR 2, 2015
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 464
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349140223
  • Price : INR 799
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E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow's novels include Andrew's Brain Homer and Langley The March City of God Welcome to Hard Times The Book of Daniel Ragtime Loon Lake Lives of the Poets World's Fair Billy Bathgate and The Waterworks. Among his honours are the National Book Award two National Book Critics Circle awards the PEN/Faulkner Award the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. He died in July 2015.

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