World's Fair

Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:Winner of the National Book Award � �Marvelous . . . You get lost in World�s Fair as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.��The New York Times Hailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant novel is one of E.L. Doctorow�s greatest works of fiction. It is 1939, and even as the rumbles of progress are being felt worldwide, New York City clings to remnants of the past, with horse-drawn wagons, street peddlers, and hurdy-gurdy men still toiling in its streets. For nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler, life is stoopball and radio serials, idolizing Joe DiMaggio, and enduring the conflicts between his realist mother and his dreamer of a father. The forthcoming Word�s Fair beckons, an amazing vision of American automation, inventiveness, and prosperity�and Edgar Altschuler responds. A marvelous work from a master storyteller, World�s Fair is a book about a boy who must surrender his innocence to come of age, and a generation that must survive great hardship to reach its future. Praise for World�s Fair �Something close to magic.��Los Angeles Times �World�s Fair is better than a time capsule; it�s an actual slice of a long-ago world, and we emerge from it as dazed as those visitors standing on the corner of the future.��Anne Tyler �Doctorow has managed to regain the awed perspective of a child in this novel of rare warmth and intimacy. . . . Stony indeed in the heart that cannot be moved by this book.��People �Fascinating . . . exquisitely rendered details of a lost way of life.��Newsweek �Wonderful reading.��USA Today.… (more)