The Book of Daniel
Language: English
Published by Random House; (1971), NY, 1971
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.Tulsa Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 6.92
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Second printing of the author's third novel (number line begins with 2, no statement of first edition), very good+ in a very good+ dust jacket. Small owner name on front endpaper; one tiny nick in brown cloth at bottom of front board. The jacket has a couple of small chips and light edgewear, and is a little darkened on the spine $6.95 price on jacket flap; a tight, square copy.
Seller Inventory # 001251
- Title
- The Book of Daniel
- Author
- Doctorow, E.L.
- Publisher
- Random House; (1971), NY
- Publication year
- 1971
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394462718
- ISBN 13
- 9780394462714
- Edition
- First Edition
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 mother and father in the Death House.
It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel's interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks.
It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case--lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself.
It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country--its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations.
It is The Book of Daniel.
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Review
- Newsweek
" A nearly perfect work of art, and art on this level can only be a cause for rejoicing."
- Joyce Carol Oates
" This is an extraordinary contemporary novel, a stunning work."
- San Francisco Chronicle
" The political novel of our age . . . the best work of its kind."
- New Republic
" Remarkable . . . One of the finest works of fiction."
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
" Stirring, brilliant, very moving."
- Houston Post
"From the Hardcover edition."
A ferocious feat of the imagination . . . Every scene is perfectly realized and feeds into the whole the themes and symbols echoing and reverberating.
Newsweek
A nearly perfect work of art, and art on this level can only be a cause for rejoicing.
Joyce Carol Oates
This is an extraordinary contemporary novel, a stunning work.
San Francisco Chronicle
The political novel of our age . . . the best work of its kind.
New Republic
Remarkable . . . One of the finest works of fiction.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Stirring, brilliant, very moving.
Houston Post"
"A ferocious feat of the imagination . . . Every scene is perfectly realized and feeds into the whole-the themes and symbols echoing and reverberating."
-Newsweek
"A nearly perfect work of art, and art on this level can only be a cause for rejoicing."
-Joyce Carol Oates
"This is an extraordinary contemporary novel, a stunning work."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"The political novel of our age . . . the best work of its kind."
-New Republic
"Remarkable . . . One of the finest works of fiction."
-Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Stirring, brilliant, very moving."
-Houston Post
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