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Also by E.L. Doctorow:

Andrew's Brain, January 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
All the Time in the World, April 2011
Hardcover
Billy Bathgate, December 2010
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Homer & Langley, September 2009
Hardcover
Welcome To Hard Times, September 2007
Trade Size (reprint)
The Book of Daniel: A Novel, July 2007
Paperback
Ragtime, May 2007
Trade Size
The March, September 2005
Hardcover
Ragtime, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
The Book of Daniel, April 1996
Trade Size (reprint)

RAGTIME
By: E.L. Doctorow

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 and the First World War.

Plume
May 1997
270 pages
ISBN: 0452279070
Trade Size (reprint)
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Historical

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, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

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