Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
369 pages, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0553026003
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Language: English
Publish: 226051200000
20th CenturyAmericanClassicsFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNew YorkNovels
Ragtime is set in America at the beginning of the 20th century. Its characters: three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with people whose names are Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emilio Zapata.
It is a novel so original, so full of imagination and subtle pleasure, that to describe it further would only dilute the pure joy of reading. Turn to the first page. Begin. You will never have read anything like Ragtime before. Nothing quite like it has ever been written before.