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E. L. Doctorow - THE WATERWORKS - 1st

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Condition
Like New: An item that looks as if it was just taken out of shrink wrap. No visible wear, and all ...
Features
1st Edition, Dust Jacket
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ISBN
9780394587547
EAN
9780394587547
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"An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction." The Washington Post Book World One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancer's fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorow's skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in the words ofThe New York Times, "a dark moral tale . . . an eloquently troubling evocation of our past." "Startling and spellbinding . . . The waters that lave the narrative all run to the great confluence, where the deepest issues of life and death are borne along on the swift, sure vessel of [Doctorow's] poetic imagination." The New York Times Book Review "Hypnotic . . . a dazzling romp, an extraordinary read, given strength and grace by the telling, by the poetic voice and controlled cynical lyricism of its streetwise and world-weary narrator." The Philadelphia Inquirer "A gem of a novel, intimate as chamber music . . . a thriller guaranteed to leave readers with residual chills and shudders." Boston Sunday Herald "Enthralling . . . a story of debauchery and redemption that is spellbinding from first page to last." Chicago Sun-Times "An immense, extraordinary achievement." San Francisco Chronicle From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394587545
ISBN-13
9780394587547
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1517642

Product Key Features

Publication Year
1994
Topic
General, Literary, Historical
Book Title
Waterworks
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Author
E. L. Doctorow
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
19 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN
93-044735
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Lc Classification Number
Ps3554.O3w3 1994
Number of Pages
253 Pages

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