'Witty, lyrical, put together with admirable craft. 'In its perfection it stuns and holds from beginning to end' ![]() If you enjoyed Ragtime, you might like John Dos Passos' U.S.A., also available in Penguin Classics. It was Doctorow’s fourth novel and among the most famous of his many works. First there's an upper middle class family that includes Father, Mother, Grandfather, Mother's Younger Brother and Little Boy. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. Welcome to the early 1900s in New Rochelle, New York There are a lot of characters to meet right off the bat, so sit back and make yourself comfortable. Life of the family is full with spirituality and fanned goodness. In a fashionable avenue lives a family in the house on the hill lined by Norwegian maples - Grandfather, Father, Mother, the Little Boy, and Mother’s Younger Brother. The novel interweaves fictional characters with actual historic events and figures. It is 1902, Teddy Roosevelt is the President of the United States. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late 19th century to the 21st, including Ragtime, The Book of Daniel and Billy Bathgate. Ragtime is a historical fiction novel by E.L. Publishers Summary Ragtime, a classic work of historical fiction first published in 1975, details the lives of three families in early 20th-century New York. Doctorow (b.1931) is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. In this stunningly original chronicle of an age, such real-life characters intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish and one prosperous WASP, to create a dazzling literary mosaic that brings to life an era of dire poverty, fabulous wealth, and incredible change - in short, the era of ragtime.Į.L. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Al Alvarez. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L.
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