World's Fair

e.l. doctorow

This wonderfully poignant story leads irresistibly to the glittering, futuristic promise of the New York World's Fair of 1939, where the young protaganist at the age of nine crosses over into a future of his own. 7 cassettes.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionclassicsnew yorkliteratureamericannovelsliterary fictionjewishhistorical

7 pages, Audio Cassette

First published October 12,1985

Literary awards

national book award,

Places

new york city new york,

This edition

Format: 7 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: January 1, 1992 by Blackstone Pub
ISBN: 9780786102990
ASIN: 0786102993
Language: English

About the author

e.l. doctorow

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.