
(1994) The Waterworks - EL Doctorow

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“A stylish page-turner of nineteenth-century investigator fiction.”–The Washington Post Book WorldOne wet day in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance author, views in a moving stagecoach many aged males, among whom he acknowledges as his apparently dead and buried dad. Pemberton vanishes, delivering McIlvaine, his company, the publisher of an evening paper, in search of the reality behind his freelancer’s destiny, while attempting to solve the secret. Layer by layer, McIlvaine shows a contemporary town racing with primordial desires and sins, where in actuality the Tweed Band works the town because of its own revenue and a self -pleased nouveau-riche ignores the squalor and poverty that encompasses them. In E.
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