# Sweet Land Stories

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- Book: [Sweet Land Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow/sweet-land-stories) ([Sweet Land Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow/sweet-land-stories.md))
- Authors: [E.L. Doctorow](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-019-5
- Published: 2007-01-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wilson'), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ('Walter John Harmon'), sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages ('Jolene: A Life'), and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White House Security ('Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden'). Comprised in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers.