02172cam a2200457 i 4500 613870986 TxAuBib 20160412120000.0 950809t19961975||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95035954 9780452279070 0452279070 9780329188320 0329188321 9780452275706 10.95 0452275709 10.95 TxAuBib rda Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015. Ragtime / by E.L. Doctorow. New York : Plume, [1996] New York, NY : Plume, 1996. ©1975. 270 p. ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Plume book.". The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence. 930L Lexile. Reading Counts RC High School 9 18 Quiz: 25705 Guided reading level: NR. 20160412. African American families New York (State) New York Fiction. Jewish families New York (State) New York Fiction. Historical fiction. United States History 1901-1909 Fiction. United States History 1898-1919 Fiction. New York (State) History 1865- Fiction. New York (State) History Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Domestic fiction.