Ragtime

e.l. doctorow

Very Good plus/Good. First Edition Hardcover. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with nicks/chips to edges and a few small repairs to lower edge. 270pp. Set in America covering the decade preceding the First World War and including many characters from real life. ISBN 0333187628

Genres fictionhistorical fictionclassicsnovelsliteraturehistoricalamericannew yorkliterary fictionbook club

282 pages, Hardcover

First published June 12,1975

Literary awards

nebula award, national book critics circle award,

Places

new rochelle new york, new york city new york, manhattan new york city new york,

This edition

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Published: December 1, 1976 by Macmillan General Books
ISBN: 9780333187623
ASIN: 0333187628
Language: English

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Emma Goldman

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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.