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  1. Plot Summary. Set in 1871 New York, American writer, editor, and professor E.L. Doctorow’s novel The Waterworks (1994) concerns freelance journalist Martin Pemberton who, after being disinherited by his rich, allegedly deceased father, glimpses him alive in the city. Setting out to track him down, Martin uncovers the sinister plot of mad ...

  2. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorow’s skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in the words of The New York ...

  3. E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World.

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  4. Nov 17, 2010 · In E. L. Doctorow’s skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in the words of The New York Times, “a dark moral tale . . . an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.” “Startling and spellbinding . . . The waters that lave the narrative all run to the great confluence, where the deepest issues of life and death are borne along on the ...

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  5. Nov 17, 2010 · The Waterworks. : “An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”. One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton ...

  6. The Waterworks. A New Yorker, E. L. Doctorow has explored aspects of his city at the turn of the century in Ragtime (1975), during the Depression era of gangster Dutch Schultz in Billy Bathgate ...

  7. E.L. Doctorow’s “The Waterworks”. This book review was originally published in the Baltimore Evening Sun on June 27, 1994. “All hell seemed to be breaking loose,” writes E. L. Doctorow in his latest novel, The Waterworks. “The collapse of a system, even a system that subjugates them, unsettles folks… we were going to have to face ...

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