ragtime

ragtime paperback e l doctorow ISBN 0452279070 270 pages Doctorow's novel takes place in turn-of-the-century New York, and mingles real-life and fictional characters. The plot involves the Evelyn Nesbit-Stanford White intrigue, but also includes a black musician and his girlfriend, a Jewish peddler on the Lower East Side, and a coterie of wealthy Anglo-Saxons in pursuit of wealth. — Set in America at the turn of the century, it tells the story of three remarkable families whose lives collide with the heroes and rogues of a fabulous era.