Sweet land stories - E. L. Doctorow
E. L. DOCTOROW
SWEET LAND
STORIES
RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK
CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
A HOUSE ON THE PLAINS
BABY WILSON
JOLENE: A LIFE
WALTER JOHN HARMON
CHILD, DEAD, IN THE ROSE GARDEN
ALSO BY E. L. DOCTOROW
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
A HOUSE ON THE PLAINS
Mama said I was thenceforth to be her nephew, and to call her Aunt Dora. She said our fortune depended on her not having a son as old as eighteen who looked more like twenty. Say Aunt Dora, she said. I said ...