The waterworks
- ISBN-10
- 0394587545
- ISBN-13
- 9780394587547
- Series
- The Waterworks
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 253
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Author
- E. L. Doctorow
Description
In post-Civil War New York City, a young pedestrian recognizes his supposedly dead father riding in a passing horse-drawn omnibus. By the author of Ragtime. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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