- 19th century, City and town life, Ficción, Fiction
New York of 1870 is the background of this tale of a journalist who finds out that his father forged his own death so that he could be part of the experiment of a mad scientist to prolong his life.
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Grave, classical in form, plot-driven and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- E. L. Doctorow
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Muchnik, Oscar Mondadori, Random House
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Russian, English, Spanish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788499187167
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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow has received the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Humanities Medal. Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931, and attended the Bronx High School of Science. After graduating with honors from Kenyon College in 1952, he did graduate work at Columbia University and served in the U.S. Army, which stationed him in Germany. In 1954, he married Helen Setzer. They have three children. Doctorow was senior editor for New American Library from 1959 to 1964 and then served as editor in
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