✦ LIBER ✦
World's Fair
✍ Scribed by E.L. Doctorow
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Winner of the National Book Award
- "Marvelous . . . You get lost in World's Fair as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller."--_The New York Times
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Hailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant novel is one of E.L. Doctorow's greatest works of fiction. It is 1939, and even as the rumbles of progress are being felt worldwide, New York City clings to remnants of the past, with horse-drawn wagons, street peddlers, and hurdy-gurdy men still toiling in its streets. For nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler, life is stoopball and radio serials, idolizing Joe DiMaggio, and enduring the conflicts between his realist mother and his dreamer of a father. The forthcoming Word's Fair beckons, an amazing vision of American automation, inventiveness, and prosperity--and Edgar Altschuler responds.
A marvelous work from a master storyteller, World's Fair...