From "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate "to "World's Fair, The March, " and "Homer & Langley," the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow "distinct from their surroundings--people in some sort of conte... goodreads.com