E.L. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late 19th century to the 21st. Al Alvarez is a poet, literary critic, and author of many non-fiction books on topics ranging from suicide, divorce and dreams – The Savage God, Life After Marriage, Night – to poker and mountaineering – The Biggest Game in Town, Offshore. He was poetry editor of The Observer from 1956-66. He has contributed regularly to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. His most recent books are an autobiography, Where Did It All Go Right?, New & Selected Poems and The Writer’s Voice. He lives in London.
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Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White. In this stunningly original chronicle of an age, such real-life characters intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish and one prosperous WASP, to create a dazzling literary mosaic that brings to life an era of dire poverty, fabulous wealth, and incredible change in short, the era of ragtime.
想到哪说到哪。没列提纲,没组织语言。 那时候我还年轻。读了几本狄更斯,便觉得自己有了纵横天下的本钱。 这时候,遇到了《泰格拉姆时代》。翻了一遍,不知所云。觉得有点象海明威,但骨子里却又完全不一样。毕竟还是年轻,唯独记得科尔豪斯是条汉子。 后来,慢慢长大了,上...
评分原文地址:[http://www.qh505.com/blog/post/5977.html] 这年是1914年,他头朝下悬在百老汇上空,而弗朗茨·斐迪南大公据说已被暗杀。就是在这一瞬间胡迪尼的脑海中出现了一个形象。那是一个小男孩,他正望着一辆汽车亮晶晶的黄铜前灯中他自己的影像。 ——《4[0》] 1914年是开...
评分我一直留在门外 《拉格泰姆时代》是小说家E.L.多克特罗用心弹奏的一支令人吃惊的曲子,又是一幅由许多明晰的画面和照片连缀而成的本世纪初叶美国社会的巨型风尘画。从某种意义上来说,《拉格泰姆时代》也是多克特罗对第一次世界大战前夕美国这个新兴国家历史的理解和把握...
评分“我告诉您为什么:机械学、牛顿和笛卡尔的出现曾经是一个大阴谋,一个罪恶的大阴谋,是要破坏我们对现实的领悟并使我们无视存在于我们之中的那些非凡的天才。可是他们的确是和我们在一起的,每个时代都和我们在一起。他们回来了,您懂吗?他们回来了!”——多克托罗《拉格...
评分“我告诉您为什么:机械学、牛顿和笛卡尔的出现曾经是一个大阴谋,一个罪恶的大阴谋,是要破坏我们对现实的领悟并使我们无视存在于我们之中的那些非凡的天才。可是他们的确是和我们在一起的,每个时代都和我们在一起。他们回来了,您懂吗?他们回来了!”——多克托罗《拉格...
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评分读了好久,最后是在纽约的时候结束的,好巧!
评分超五星的小说
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