The Book of Daniel
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0452275660 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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“A ferocious feat of the imagination Every scene is perfectly realized and feeds into the whole–the themes and symbols echoing and reverberating.”–Newsweek“A nearly perfect work of art, and art on this level can only be a cause for rejoicing.”–Joyce Carol Oates“This is an extraordinary contemporary novel, a stunning work.”–San Francisco Chronicle“The political novel of our age the best work of its kind.”–New Republic“Remarkable One of the finest works of fiction.”–Minneapolis Star Tribune“Stirring, brilliant, very moving.”–Houston Post
It's a wonderful book, but just too long L. K. Brown This is a historical novel about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and their children. The names are different and instead of two sons, the couple has a son and a daughter. It's a wonderful book, but just too long, so it becomes tedious after awhile.. Pathos and Politics Ethan Cooper I have read most of E.L. Doctorow's novels and take great pleasure in the smoothness of their narratives, the sense that Doctorow has not misplaced or misused a single word. This same master's quality is evident in "The Book of Daniel", where it brings great imaginative precision to the lives of the Paul and Rachel Isaacson, a couple who are executed as spies and who are modeled on the Rosenbergs. To me, the book's most moving writing has the narrator, the Isaacson's son Daniel, remembering his parents as people with fri. Three Stars Nontraditional narrative style but generally readable. Not a satisfying story, but that isn't it's intent.
Reprint.. In 1967, Daniel, the son of two convicted spys executed by their own country, ponders his life, his sister's radicalism, his appreciation for his wife and son, and the hypocrisy of the moralistic ideals upon which this country was based
His earlier novels are Welcome to Hard Times and Big as Life. . Formerly editor-in-chief of a prominent New York publishing house, he was most recently writer-in-residence at the University of California at Irvine. L. DOCTOROW was born in 1931 in New York City and was educated at Kenyon College and Columbia University. He lives in Westchester County with his wife and three children. E