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Sweet land stories / E.L. Doctorow.

By:

Doctorow, E. L, 1931-2015

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Random House, 2005, c2004.Edition: 1st ed. paperbackDescription: 147 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780812971774

Subject(s):

United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC DOC

Online resources:

Contents:

A house on the plains -- Baby Wilson -- Jolene : a life -- Walter John Harmon -- Child, dead, in the rose garden.

Summary: You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick townhouse in rural Illinois ("A House on the Plains"), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ("Baby Wilson"), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ("Walter John Harmon"), and sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages to a kind of bruised but resolute independence ("Jolene: A Life"). And in the stunning "Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden," you will witness a special agent of the FBI finding himself at a personal crossroads while investigating a grave breach of White House security.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC DOC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible	Fiction		027150

A house on the plains -- Baby Wilson -- Jolene : a life -- Walter John Harmon -- Child, dead, in the rose garden.

You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick townhouse in rural Illinois ("A House on the Plains"), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ("Baby Wilson"), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ("Walter John Harmon"), and sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages to a kind of bruised but resolute independence ("Jolene: A Life"). And in the stunning "Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden," you will witness a special agent of the FBI finding himself at a personal crossroads while investigating a grave breach of White House security.

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