All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories is a collection of short stories by American author E.L. Doctorow. This book was first published in 2011 by Random House.[1]
All the Time in the World : New and Selected Stories
An earlier version of “Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate” appeared in The New American Review.
“Walter John Harmon,” “A House on the Plains,” and “Jolene: A Life,” were first published in The New Yorker and were later included in Doctorow's story collection Sweet Land Stories.
“The Writer in the Family,” was first published in Esquire; “Willi,” first appeared in The Atlantic. Along with the story “The Hunter”, these three stories were included in Doctorow's book Lives of the Poets.
Receptionedit
Christian Williams for The A.V. Club gives the collection an A− grade saying: "While the abruptness of the stories’ conclusions go from rattling to occasionally repetitive, though, the openings are always fresh, as Doctorow skillfully shifts perspective and style to better examine how the same weaknesses that make us human can also rob us of our humanity."[3] Jess Row in The New York Times is not impressed, writing: "Doctorow’s novels tend to follow a deductive logic, beginning with the great themes of an era (or simply with a set of historical facts) and then dramatizing them in an interwoven ensemble of characters. Without a substantial dose of irony, short stories don’t work that way; the heavy-handedness of the novelist smashes them flat."[4] David L. Ulin for the Los Angeles Times sees some value in mixing the older stories with the new: "this too is in the nature of a new and selected, to operate as a bit of a grab bag, and in so doing to let us read the work anew. To be sure, that's the case with the six older stories, which trace, with grace and acuity, the tension between longing and obligation, between who we are and who we mean to be."[5]
Referencesedit
^Doctorow, E. L. (2011). All the Time in the World: New and Selected Short Stories. New York: Random House. pp. 304. ISBN978-1-4000-6963-7.
^E. L. Doctorow. “All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories.” Random House, 2011.
^Williams, Christian (28 April 2011). "All The Time In The World". Review. A.V. Club. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
^Row, Jess (1 April 2011). "E. L. Doctorow's Stories". The New York Times Sunday Book Review. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
^Ulin, David L. (20 March 2011). "Book Review: 'All the Time in the World' by E.L. Doctorow". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
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