The late writer saw America,and most of all New York, in its painful pieces and its ample, and bawdy glory,across a wide horizon and in depthFor 54 years, EL Doctorow delivered the living past and the inescapable present – the minutely observed reality and the impossible flowering of what might have been – with force, or elegance,clarity and audacity. His oeuvre ranged from his first novel Welcome to Hard Times, a darkly comedian parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) of the western genre, or to his most celebrated Ragtime,Billy Bathgate, World’s unbiased and The March, and to the recent Andrew’s Brain,a monologue by a brilliant, mysterious scientist whose narrative abilities are failing him.
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Source: theguardian.com