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Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow, read by the author. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 7 CDs, 7.5 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-5318-3720-4

It isn’t easy to imitate musical syncopation in prose, but Doctorow pulls it off in the audio edition of his now-classic 1975 novel. The ebb and flow and swing of his sentences, reflecting turn-of-the-century jazz genres, are captured perfectly in his low-key, fast-paced reading. Doctorow seamlessly interweaves his invented characters and incidents with a wide range of historical events and people like Houdini, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Sigmund Freud, and others to create a portrait of early-20th-century America that presages the rise of the civil rights and women’s movements and our involvement in two world wars. Doctorow’s novel and his narration are gifts to savor. A Random House paperback. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 01/30/2017

Genre: Audio

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