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Welcome to Hard Times, a novel, E.L. Doctorow

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Welcome to Hard Times, a novel, E.L. Doctorow

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Welcome to Hard Times

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

700949418

Responsibility statement

E.L. Doctorow

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage, a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably, and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw

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