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THE BOOK OF DANIEL Unknown - 1981

by E. L. DOCTOROW


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  • Title THE BOOK OF DANIEL
  • Author E. L. DOCTOROW
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher FAWCETT BOOKS
  • Date 1981
  • ISBN 9780553206333
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THE BOOK OF DANIEL

THE BOOK OF DANIEL

by E. L. DOCTOROW

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9780553206333 / 0553206338
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The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him.In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different.It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents' innocence; visiting his… Read More
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