WORLD'S FAIR
by Doctorow E. L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1985. First Edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, in the original dustjacket. 288. A very fine copy but for the lightest bit of mellowing to the jacket edges. Perhaps the author’s most powerful book. A chronicle of a New York boyhood in the 1930s, a time of depression, ever growing tensions in Europe and the glittering futuristic promise of the New York City World’s Fair.
Synopsis
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent and is an American author. World’s Fair was the 1986 recipient of the National Book Award. In this wonderfully descriptive novel we meet the narrator, young Edgar Altschuler, a Jewish kid growing up in the Bronx of the 1930’s. The introspective drama follows Edgars from infancy through age 9, and captures the stunning sights, emotions and sounds of that time period. The story culminates with Edgar’s visit to the exciting World’s Fair of 1939 in Flushing Meadow. E.L. Doctorow skillfully reveals an especially good story that is compelling and memorable.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25595
- Title
- WORLD'S FAIR
- Author
- Doctorow E. L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
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Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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