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The Book of Daniel

A Novel

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The Book of Daniel

De: E. L. Doctorow
Narrado por: Mark Deakins
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The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. 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 an audiobook 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 an audiobook 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 an audiobook rich in characters. It is an audiobook that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is an audiobook about the nature of Left politics in this country its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is an audiobook 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.

Cover art: Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55. Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

©2005 E. L. Doctorow (P)2013 Random House Audio
Ficción Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Psicológico Vida Familiar Matrimonio

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"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)

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A brilliant book read in an unobtrusively

A great way to tackle this tome. The story is pacy and the history alive.

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Post WWII Red Scare Politics Meets 60's Radicalism

Would you consider the audio edition of The Book of Daniel to be better than the print version?

Yes - the way Doctrow writes, shifting eras from past to present to in between, it's sometimes hard to understand which time period he's writing about. Having the performer do the reading helps the listener to understand which time period is being discussed.

What other book might you compare The Book of Daniel to and why?

I've read that Daniel is compared to Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye. I can see that similarity in their personalities.

Which character – as performed by Mark Deakins – was your favorite?

Daniel - who's motivations and personality is impacted by the era and at what stage of acceptance/defiance Daniel is experiencing about his parents death.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

no

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Not as good as Ragtime

At least when I finished Ragtime, I could look back and see a plot. Both books meander, but this one is worse.

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