Live with it, baby! This is the way novels are these day Governing emotion : white-hot anger And I'm gonna drop from first person to third person and back again sometimes in mid-sentence. Governing emotion : white-hot anger Underneath that : confusion (for the characters, for the reader) Style : I’m EL Doctorow and it’s 1971 and society is caving in and I’m gonna put anything I like in my novel, chunks of political analysis, satires of hippy revolution, childhood memoir, denunciations of the old left, lists of candy bars I once ate. Doctorow's dazzling masterpiece, as he fictionalizes an actual social and political drama to create an intensely moving, searching, and illuminating tale of two decades, two generations, and a troubled legacy of passion and purpose, martyrdom and meaning.more Like millions of other Americans, he is attempting to reconcile an America based on the highest human ideals with the tragedy of his parents. Decades later their son, Daniel, grown to young manhood, tries to make sense of their lives and deaths - and their legacy to him. After a highly controversial trial, the couple go to the electric chair for treason despite worldwide protests. Like millions of As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents knock on the Bronx apartment door of a Communist man and his wife.
As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents knock on the Bronx apartment door of a Communist man and his wife.