03820cam a2200517 a 4500 79888 20230410132643.0 931202s1994 nyu 000 1 eng 93044735 (OCoLC)ocm29548564 DLC DLC XY4 BAKER NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG OCLCQ RIOSL UBC ZWZ 31616206 38118910 0394587545 9780394587547 ZWZ 018020232 (OCoLC)29548564 (OCoLC)31616206 (OCoLC)38118910 n-us-ny PS 3554 W3 1994 813 GRAL Doctorow, E. L. (Edgar Lawrence), 1931-2015 The waterworks / E.L. Doctorow. 1st trade ed. New York : Random House, c1994. 253 p. ; 25 cm. Also issued online. One rainy morning in 1871 young Martin Pemberton, walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan, sees in a passing horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. So begins E. L. Doctorow's astounding new novel of post-Civil War New York, where maimed veterans beg in the streets, newsboys fight for their corners, the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit, and a conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect is all a glitter in a setting of mass misery. As Pemberton tries in vain to track the strange omnibus of old men, he leads us into a city we know and recognize and yet don't know, a ghost city that stands to contemporary New York like a panoramic negative print, reversed in its lights and shadows, its seasons turned round. The increasingly ominous tale is narrated by Pemberton's sometime employer, McIlvaine, the editor of the newspaper for which the young man writes occasional reviews. When Pemberton himself disappears, McIlvaine goes in pursuit of the truth of his freelance's bizarre fate. Layer by layer, he reveals to us a New York more deadly, more creative, more of a genius society than it is now. New technologies transport water to its reservoirs and gaslight to its streetlamps. Locomotives thunder down its streets. Telegraphy sings in its overhead wires, and its high-speed printing presses turn out tens of thousands of newspapers for a penny or two. It is a proudly, heedlessly modern city, and yet...the scene of ancient, primordial urges and transgressions, a companion city of our dreams...a moral hologram generated from this celebrated author's electrifying historical imagination. The Waterworks is a haunting tale of genius and madness in a metropolis that is itself a product of these qualities. Masterfully written and promising to be unforgettable, it is a triumphant addition to E. L. Doctorow's remarkable body of work. City and town life New York (State) New York History 19th century Fiction. Young men New York (State) New York Fiction. Primera Jornada de Catalogación. Hombres jóvenes Estados Unidos. Hombres jóvenes Novela. Novela estadounidense. New York (N.Y.) Fiction. Historical fiction. gsafd Historical fiction. gsafd New York (N.Y.) 19e siáecle Romans. ram Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0709/93044735-d.html Baker & Taylor BKTY 23.00 17.25 0394587545 0002382950 active Baker and Taylor BTCP 93044735 //r963 $23.00 ($31.00 Can.) YBP Library Services YANK 342420 Baker & Taylor BKTY 22.50 16.88 0679433724 0002417118 active lcc bk C0 DRFGD sh 85391 85391 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PS 3554 W3 1994 00000072049 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk