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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
Plume
Language
English
Pages
270

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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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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, NY
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3554.O3 R34 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
270 p.
Number of pages
270

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17741536M
Internet Archive
ragtime00eldo_3
ISBN 10
0452279070
OCLC/WorldCat
38876606
Library Thing
25237
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
541225

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