Category:
Action,
Adults,
General FictionLanguage:
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Frontier Life Pillage Recovery RevengeWritten by E.L. Doctorow
Read by John Rubinstein
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Date: June 2014
Duration: 6 hours 28 minutes
Summary:
Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics.
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.