The Waterworks

e.l. doctorow

In 1871 New York, the disinherited son of an infamous late millionaire is amazed when he sees his father alive and begins a quest for the truth that leads him into the heart of evil and terror.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionmysterynew yorkliterary fictionliteratureamericannovelshistoricalaudiobook

4 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1,1994

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This edition

Format: 4 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: May 31, 1994 by Random House Audio
ISBN: 9780679433729
ASIN: 0679433724
Language: English

About the author

History based known novels of American writer Edgar Laurence Doctorow. His works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World's Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN Faulkner Awards, The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer's lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN Saul Bellow Award given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the highest rank of American Literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction.