The Waterworks
$7.95 USD • Used
Corners slightly bumped, a couple pages creased from being paper clipped together. Red marker stripe on top edge (remainder mark). Pages clean and bright. The book is set in a post-Civil War New Y...
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Corners slightly bumped, a couple pages creased from being paper clipped together. Red marker stripe on top edge (remainder mark). Pages clean and bright. The book is set in a post-Civil War New York City of the 1870s with maimed veterans begging in the streets, the Tweed Ring & conspicuous wealth glittering among mass misery. Young Martin Pemberton, a newspaper freelancer, encounters an old man who he recognizes as his supposedly dead & buried father. While searching for his father he disappears. His editor pursues the truth & in the process the author reveals New York City at a time of great energy & creativity. Doctorow states: "The soul of the city was always my subject and it was a roiling soul, twisting and turning over on itself and opening out again like a blown cloud."; Remainder; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
Product Info
ISBN: 0394587545
ISBN-13: 9780394587547
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Year: 1994
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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OrielisBooks
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Country: United States
