An edition of Ragtime (1974)

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An edition of Ragtime (1974)

Ragtime

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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 & 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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1997, Modern Library
in English - Modern Library ed.
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1996, Plume
in English
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1991, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
July 1980, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1976, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1976, Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1975, Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1975, Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1974, Random House
in English

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Book Details


First Sentence

"In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broad-view Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York."

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7821915M
Internet Archive
ragtime0000doct_j7w6
ISBN 10
0553245201
ISBN 13
9780553245202
Library Thing
25237

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