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The Book of Daniel : A Novel by Doctorow, E L is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Book of Daniel : A Novel about?
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 a book 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 a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel?s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange
Who reads The Book of Daniel : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Doctorow, E L
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812978179
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (500 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14