Doctorow, E. L.

While walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan on a rainy morning in 1871, Martin Pemberton sees in a horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.

The fate of three American families is intertwined with historical personalities and events in this novel set in the turn-of-the-century U.S.

A compilation of twenty-one American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 1999 and January 2000, selected for inclusion by guest editor E. L. Doctorow, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 1999.