Ragtime

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The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ¦ "Ragtime is as exhilarating as a deep breath of pure oxygen át times, the swift, short sentences suggest the pristine flicker of silent films; at others, the sharp angles and sardonic deployment of detail in Citizen Kane The grace and surface vivacity of Ragtime make it enormous fun to read. But beneath its peppy, bracing rhythms sound the neat, sad waltz of GaTSBY and the tunes of betrayed promise. History resonates with special clarity here. doctorow has found a fresh way to orchestrate the themes of American innocence, energy, and inchoate ambition." - Newsweek
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a növel could be. 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... Tovább

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The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ¦ "Ragtime is as exhilarating as a deep breath of pure oxygen át times, the swift, short sentences suggest the pristine flicker of silent films; at others, the sharp angles and sardonic deployment of detail in Citizen Kane The grace and surface vivacity of Ragtime make it enormous fun to read. But beneath its peppy, bracing rhythms sound the neat, sad waltz of GaTSBY and the tunes of betrayed promise. History resonates with special clarity here. doctorow has found a fresh way to orchestrate the themes of American innocence, energy, and inchoate ambition." - Newsweek
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a növel could be. 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 outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters-namely one Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence. "A unique and beautiful work of art," wrote Stanley Kauffmann in the Saturday Review. "Doctorow has added a grace to our history."
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