Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Good copy. Good jacket. In brown cloth covers with brown initials boxed in gilt on front cover and title boxed in gilt on spine. Unmarked pages. Name written on back pastedown. Glue residue on back free endpaper. NOT ex-library. Bumping of head and tail of spine. Faded edges. Cocked spine. Jacket: Price intact on upper front flap. Bumping and chipping of head of spine. Bumping of tail of spine and edges. Moderate shelf rubbing. In protective jacket cover.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow’s best-known novel, highlights the American melting pot and how the nation came to be what it is today. Set in the early 1900s, the story namely focuses on a wealthy family living in New Rochelle, New York, simply named Father, Mother, Mother's Younger Brother, Grandfather, and the boy. The boy, Father and Mother's young son, perhaps narrates the novel from a reminiscent adult perspective, but the omniscient narrator is never decidedly identified. The family’s turn-of-the-century journey of adaption addresses the tensions between reacting to the evolution of the era and executing revolution. Yet Ragtime is far more than the family’s narrative. In a beautiful execution of historical fiction, the novel weaves together biographical subplots of prominent figures of the day, including J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, Sigmund Freud, and Emma Goldman. The result: Ragtime focuses not on just the nameless or the famous, but how the two groups create history together. Written when Vietnam was drawing to a close, Ragtime addresses issues that were affecting America at the time—from the abuse of power to racism to using sex to sell just about anything—but it also includes classic and enduring themes of morality, repression and injustice, change, and time. Ragtime was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1975. It also won the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award the following year. The novel was adapted for a 1981 movie and a 1998 Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Ragtime is included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923) and ranked 86th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001653
- Title
- Ragtime
- Author
- E. L. Doctorow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION, RELATIONSHIPS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Relationship;
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania
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