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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100394469011

ISBN-139780394469010

eBay Product ID (ePID)421017

Product Key Features

TopicLiterary, Historical

Book TitleRagtime

Publication Year1975

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorE. L. Doctorow

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight22 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN75-009613

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisPublished 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3554.O3.R3x