Welcome to Hard Times

Welcome to Hard TimesBy: E. L. Doctorow Here is E. L. Doctorows debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two

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READER REVIEW

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of Communism

It’s potty time

It censors which books can be read

she pulls the curtains and tells Tristan that they are black

and can’t wait to spend the day with her

The Secret History of the Mongols is one of the literary wonders of the world

It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception

but dark secrets await him beneath Muir Island

”—Sir Angus Deaton