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‘Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist of all time, walks stark naked up six flights of stairs to Murderers’ Row, to be incarcerated as a supreme test of his power . . . In a cell opposite, Harry Thaw, eccentric heir to a railway fortune who shot architect Stanford White, finishes a six-course dinner with champagne . . . Sigmund Freud is on the loose at Coney Island, riding the scenic railway and taking a boat through the Tunnel of Love with Carl Jung . . . These are the scenes from Ragtime whose author E. L. Doctorow can be named in the same sentence as such giants of the past as James Joyce and John Dos Passos’ Evening Standard
‘Like ragtime, the jazz form made famous by Scott Joplin, Doctorow’s book is a native American fugue, rhythmic, melodic and stately. The book never stands still for a moment. Story lines constantly interweave; historical figures become part of fictional events and fictional characters participate in real history. Doctorow’s image and improvisations foreshadow the twentieth century’s coming preoccupation with scandal, psychoanalysis, solipsism, race, technological power and megalomania . . . He has seized the strands of actuality and transformed them into a fabulous tale’ Time
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‘As exhilarating as a breath of pure oxygen . . . this highly original novel is enormous fun to read’ Newsweek
About the Author
E L Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931, New York. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels . The novel Ragtime received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the Arts and Letters Award, it was later transformed into a film in 1981 and a musical in 1998. In 2006, he held the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0330288490
- ISBN 13 9780330288491
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages236
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