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Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.

The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears.

Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

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Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.
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ISBN:
9780452279070
Author:
Doctorow, E. L.
Publisher:
Plume
Author:
Doctorow, E. L.
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
History
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Movie-TV Tie-In
Subject:
New York
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Jewish families
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:
African American families
Subject:
Movie-TV Tie-In - General
Subject:
Media Tie-In - General
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
United states
Subject:
New york (state)
Copyright:
1997
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Series Volume:
no. 80
Publication Date:
19970501
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
7.98x5.37x.78 in. .54 lbs.
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