6/10/2023 0 Comments Ragtime the book![]() ![]() After we learn about his life, we are presented with our second set of main characters, a struggling artist and his daughter. The beginning is simple enough, taking us to New York City in 1906, presenting us with a typical American businessman belonging to the middle class, running a business selling fireworks and patriotic bunting. So what exactly is the whole thing about? As a matter of fact, I think there is definitely some room to argue this book created a new genre of its own, but one most authors aren’t exactly capable of contributing to. While the book is labelled on most shelves as a work of historical fiction, I don’t think it does the entire scope of it real justice. ![]() Doctorow‘s classic Ragtime comes along, and essentially defies any type of classification we might be attempting to give it. Speaking for the vast majority of books, they can all be classified pretty soundly in at least one literary sub-genre, if not more, allowing us to much more easily curate what we want to read. ![]()
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