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	Ragtime Author: E. L. Doctorow
	Book Information Publisher: Plume Book Type: Paperback Rating: ISBN-13: 9780452279070 - ISBN-10: 0452279070 Pages: 270

Doctorow's novel takes place in turn-of-the-century New York, and mingles real-life and fictional characters. The plot involves the Evelyn Nesbit-Stanford White intrigue, but also includes a black musician and his girlfriend, a Jewish peddler on the Lower East Side, and a coterie of wealthy Anglo-Saxons in pursuit of wealth. Time magazine called RAGTIME one of the 10 best books of the 1970s, and it was made into a successful musical.
It is a joy to read and it reads like a streak. It's dazzling, rich, passionate. It catches the spirit of our country. It's Ragtime, the big, popular, critically applauded novel that earned E.L. Doctorow worldwide fame and placed him in the front rank of fiction writers.
Set in America at the turn of the century, it tells the story of three remarkable families whose lives collide with the heroes and rogues of a fabulous era.
"Excellent...one devours it in a single sitting!" - The New York Times
"An extraordinarily deft, lyrical, rich novel that catches the spirit of this country...in a fluid musical way that is as original as it is satisfying." - The New Yorker

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