Ragtime / by E.L. Doctorow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish families.

African American families.

History.

United States--History--1901-1909--Fiction.

United States.

New York (State)--History--1865---Fiction.

New York (State).

African American families--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Jewish families--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

270 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Plume, [1996]

Summary:

"Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century." "The lives of an upper-middle-class family in New Rochelle; a black ragtime musician who loses his beloved, his child, and his life because of bigotry; and a poor immigrant Jewish family are interwoven in this early-twentieth-century story. There are cameo appearances by well-known figures of that period: Houdini, anarchist Emma Goldman, actress Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, and J.P. Morgan, whose magnificent library plays an important part in the story. The book mingles fact and fiction in portraying the era of ragtime." Shapiro Fic for Youth. 3rd ed.

ISBN:

0452275709

9780452275706

0452279070

9780452279070

OCLC:

33043005