# Welcome to Hard Times

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- Book: [Welcome to Hard Times](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow/welcome-to-hard-times) ([Welcome to Hard Times.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow/welcome-to-hard-times.md))
- Authors: [E.L. Doctorow](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow)
- Publisher: random_house_trade_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-08-1297-822-3
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2007-09-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Here is E. L. Doctorow’s 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....