Welcome to Hard Times
A Novel
Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics.
Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably–and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits…
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E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Andrew’s Brain, Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. 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 was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame and won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which is given to an author whose “scale of achievement over…
Doctorow: Collected Stories
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Andrew's Brain
E. L. Doctorow
City of God
E. L. Doctorow
All the Time in the World
E. L. Doctorow
Drinks Before Dinner
E. L. Doctorow
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:
E. L. Doctorow
Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow
Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
Lives of the Poets
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Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Creationists
E. L. Doctorow
Loon Lake
E. L. Doctorow
Welcome to Hard Times
E. L. Doctorow
The Book of Daniel
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The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
The Winter Family
Clifford Jackman
The New World
Andrew Motion
California 1901
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The Frontier Trilogy
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The Englishman's Boy
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The Last Crossing
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A Good Man
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje
The Last Cowboy
Lee Gowan
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey Introduction and Notes by William R. Handley
Homesick
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The Devil Raises His Own
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Ten Sleep
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Rage of Eagles
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