E.L. Doctorow (23 page)
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And I have to allow, with great shame, I keep thinking someone will come by sometime who will want to use the wood.
E. L. D
OCTOROW’S
work has been published in thirty languages. His novels include
City of God, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks
, and
The March
. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, 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 lives in New York.
2007 Random House Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 1960 by E. L. Doctorow.
Copyright © 1988 renewed by E. L. Doctorow.
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Published in the United States by Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1960.
eISBN: 978-0-307-76297-9
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