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- Doctorow’s “Ragtime” is a highly original experiment in historical fiction. But the first thing to be said about it is that it works. Why do these historical images--half documentary-half invented--seem truer than the truth? It works so well that one devours it in a single sitting as if it were the most conventional of entertainments.
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Jul 14, 1975 · by E.L. Doctorow ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 14, 1975. bookshelf. shop now. Ragtime is a great billiard game of events, ideas and personages at the turn of the century, where the real protagonist is America herself captured in the last gasps of complacency and social Darwinism—waging territorial wars abroad for God, Country and Mammon, breaking ...
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Jun 12, 1975 · 43,922 ratings3,052 reviews. 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.
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Novel and History. Book Review: 'Ragtime' . L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime” is a highly original experiment in historical fiction. But the first thing to be said about it is that it works....
Mar 5, 2015 · Fred R. Conrad, The New York Times. E.L. Doctorow’s novel “Ragtime” was the subject of a 1975 Tribune review by John Brooks. By John Brooks. PUBLISHED: March 5, 2015 at 9:28 a.m. |...
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Aug 17, 2022 · With ‘Ragtime,’ E.L. Doctorow Blends Fact and Fantasy to Deliver a Pointed Critique - The New York Times. In the 1975 novel, as Jonathan Dee writes, the gaps between disparate American...
Book Summary. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, 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 ...
Jan 9, 2021 · All of this is thanks to Doctorow and what he taught me: Read deeply, steal what you can and always listen for the music. S. Kirk Walsh’s first novel, “The Elephant of Belfast,” will be ...
