Ragtime : Roman. Dt. von Angela Praesent / Rororo ; 12719

Doctorow, E. L.:

ISBN 10: 3499127199 / ISBN 13: 9783499127199

Published by Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1989

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286 S. ; 19 cm Gebraucht, guter Zustand 16i ISBN: 9783499127199 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 220.

Seller Inventory # 1886069

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ragtime : Roman. Dt. von Angela Praesent / Rororo ; 12719
• Publisher: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3499127199
• ISBN 13: 9783499127199
• Binding: kart.
• Edition: 16. - 27. Tsd.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 220 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Romane

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Synopsis

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 & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, 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. Almost magically, the line between fantasy & historical fact, between real & imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud & Emiliano Zapata slip in & out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family & other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler & a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.