The Book of Daniel

Description

FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment, and after a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like millions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself in the Vietnam War. A stunning fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, THE BOOK OF DANIEL is an intensely moving tale of political martyrdom and the search for meaning.

E.L. Doctorow's novels include Andrew's Brain, Homer and Langley, The March, City of God, The Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair and Billy Bathgate. Among Doctorow's honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. E. L. Doctorow lives in New York.

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