Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

ISBN 10: 0394469011 / ISBN 13: 9780394469010

Published by Random House, 1975

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ragtime
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394469011
• ISBN 13: 9780394469010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Weight: 1.44 pounds

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Synopsis

Relates the interrelated early twentieth-century lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Houdini, Morgan, Dreiser, Freud, Zapata, and other period notables

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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, disap-
pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sig- mund 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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