- Fiction, History, Race relations, African American families
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.
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Prestige, epic, formally daring and meticulous.
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- E. L. Doctorow
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Tandem Library, Puzzle-Roca
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780613174626
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“In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broad-view Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York.”
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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