These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E.L.Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ("A House on the Plains"), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ("Baby Wilson"), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ("Walter John Harmon"), sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages ("Jolene: A Life"), and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White House security ("Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden"). Written in a variety of moods an