7/6/2023 0 Comments Ragtime the book![]() ![]() Morgan and a Henryįord get together in a mansion on New York’s West 36th Street, exchange their respective thoughts on reincarnation and “found the most secret and exclusive club in America, The Pyramid, of which they were the only members.” He congratulated him on the invention of the airplane.” Or of the scene in which a J. Who “gazed.with stupid heavy-lidded eyes” and “didn’t seem to know who Houdini was. Of the passages in which one Harry Houdini, grown dissatisfied with being “a trickster, an illusionist, a mere magician,” sails to Europe, learns to fly a biplane and performs a few turns before the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, And the reviewer is tempted to dispense with heavy breathing and analysis and settle down to mindless celebration of the pure fun of the thing. It works so well that one devours it in a single sitting as if it were the most conventional of entertainments. But the first thing to be said about itĭocumentary-half invented-seem truer than the truth? Doctorow’s “Ragtime” is a highly original experiment in historical fiction. Book Review: 'Ragtime' By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT. ![]()
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