- Executions and executioners, Fiction, Jewish families, Jews
Daniel Isaacson, whose parents were executed for treason, composes a unique document recalling the associations, and interpersonal relationships of his life.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and character-led.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- E. L. Doctorow
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Fawcett, Bantam Books, Random House / Bantam Book
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679736578
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“On Memorial Day in 1967 Daniel Lewin thumbed his way from New York to Worcester, Mass., in just under five hours.”
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow has received the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Humanities Medal. Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931, and attended the Bronx High School of Science. After graduating with honors from Kenyon College in 1952, he did graduate work at Columbia University and served in the U.S. Army, which stationed him in Germany. In 1954, he married Helen Setzer. They have three children. Doctorow was senior editor for New American Library from 1959 to 1964 and then served as editor in
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