Ragtime
(Book)
Author
Status
Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
Doctorow
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Doctorow
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Book
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270 pages
Language
English
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Doctorow, E. L. (1996). Ragtime . Penguin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015. 1996. Ragtime. Penguin.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015. Ragtime Penguin, 1996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime Penguin, 1996.
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