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Author: E. L. Doctorow
Publisher: MacMilla
Keywords: ragtime
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $31.70
ISBN-10: 0330288490
ISBN-13: 9780330288491

This novel recounts the interrelated early 20th-century lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvement with Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Houdini, Morgan, Freud, Zapata, and other period notables.

Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: novel, ragtime
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812978188
ISBN-13: 9780812978186

COAL HOUSE WALKER, THE JAZZ PIANIST FROM HARLEM AND TATCH, THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT ALL PLAY IMPORTANT SPELLBINDING ROLES IN THIS E. L. DOCTOROW COMPELLING NOVEL SET DURING THE ERA OF EMMA GOLDMAN, THE REVOLUTIONARY, J. P. MORGAN, THE TYCOON, AND HENRY FORD THE INDUSTRIALIST. A MUST READ. COPY IS 8" X 5 1?4" AND CONTAINS 320 PAGES.

Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, fair, world
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-07-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 081297820X
ISBN-13: 9780812978209

"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles TimesThe astonishing novel of a young boy’s life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World’s Fair . . .From the Paperback edition.

Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, march
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 2006-09-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0812976150
ISBN-13: 9780812976151

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable readi

Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, lake, loon
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0812978218
ISBN-13: 9780812978216

The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes. Brightly lit windows reveal well-dressed men at a table and, in another compartment, a beautiful girl holding up a white dress before her naked form. Joe will follow the track to the mysterious estate at Loon Lake, where he finds the girl along with a tycoon, an aviatrix, a drunken poet, and a covey of gangsters. Here Joe’s fat

Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: novel, langley, amp, homer
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1400064945
ISBN-13: 9781400064946

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers–the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily

Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: novel, march
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 2005-09-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0375506713
ISBN-13: 9780375506710

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives o
  
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