Drinks Before Dinner [Paperback]

E. L. Doctorow (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books (September 1980)
• ISBN-10: 0553142542
• ISBN-13: 978-0553142549
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,468,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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E. L. Doctorow's novels include The March, City of God, The Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, and Billy Bathgate. His work has been published in thirty-two languages. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. E. L. Doctorow lives in New York.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Inconsolable, March 31, 2002

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This review is from: Drinks Before Dinner (Paperback)

This play seems to be an interesting essay doctorow wrote, and he put it in a play format to make it different. there isn't much action, so reading the play may be as effective as seeing it (though i don't know for sure). it has the danger of getting melodramatic. it fits well with The Book of Daniel. But beware of the ending of Act One. It's rather cheesy. Doctorow loses his subtlety there and really should rewrite it.