Synopsis Set in the town of Hard Times in the Dakota Territory, Doctorow's early novel is his only Western.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1975-01-01 |
Publisher's Note When the Man from Bodie burns the small Dakota Territory town of Hard Times to the ground, Blue, record keeper and self-appointed mayor, determinedly rallies the frightened, fed-up, and dazed townspeople to rebuild.
Industry Reviews "Doctorow's first novel, 'Welcome to Hard Times',...is a superb piece of fiction: lean and mean, and thematically significant....This is what E. L. Doctorow does in 'Welcome to Hard Times': he takes the thin, somewhat sordid and incipiently depressing materials of the Great Plains experience and fashions them into a myth of good and evil, city-founding and city-destroying. He does it marvelously, with economy and with great narrative power." New Republic - Kevin Starr (09/06/1975)
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