The Waterworks

e.l. doctorow

While looking into the disappearance of a missing freelance book reviewer, McIlvaine, a reporter, finds himself roaming around the underground world of 1890s New York City, where he discovers a strange doctor who can keep the rich alive through macabre methods. Reprint.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionmysterynew yorkliterary fictionliteratureamericannovelshistoricalaudiobook

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1994

Places

new york city new york,

This edition

Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Published: May 1, 1997 by Plume
ISBN: 9780452275492
ASIN: 0452275490
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.