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A superb collection of 15 stories by an American get better at, E. L. Doctorow - the writer of Ragtime, The March, The Reserve of Daniel, and Billy Bathgate. He has been called "a nationwide treasure" by George Saunders. Doctorow's great topic, said Don DeLillo, is "the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives undertake the cadences of background". This electric power is apparent just about everywhere in these stories: the bravery and self-delusion of men and women seeking the American fantasy; the geniuses, mystics, and charlatans who offer people bogus hope - or an actual view of greatness. In "A RESIDENCE on the Plains", a mother has an idea for financial self-reliance, which might include murder. In "Walter John Harmon", a man begins a cult using subterfuge and seduction. "Jolene: A Life" practices a teenager who escapes her home for Hollywood on the perilous search for success. "Heist", the bill of an Episcopal priest coping with a crisis of faith, was expanded into the best-seller City of God. "THIS PARTICULAR Works", about the underbelly of 1870s New York, grew into an excellent novel. "Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate" is a corollary to the renowned novel and includes Doctorow's revisions. These 15 stories, written from the 1960s to the first 21st hundred years, and selected, revised, and placed to be able by the writer himself shortly before he passed away in 2015, are a testament to the genius of E. L. Doctorow. Read by John Rubinstein, with Joshua Swanson and Jesse Bernstein