Ragtime

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:E. L. Doctorow

页数:288

出版时间:2006-2-2

价格:GBP 7.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141188171

具体描述

在线阅读本书

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.

作者简介

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.

读后感

“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...  

精明的历史“盗墓者” ——读多克托罗《拉格泰姆时代》 ■ 东渔 美国文学就是一个繁花似锦的大杂烩，这里面夹杂着马克·吐温的世事鞭策，科马克·麦卡锡的残酷争斗，福克纳的家族秘史，再到厄普代克中产梦陨，海明威的硬汉情结，菲茨杰拉德的美国梦，以及卡佛...

知道这部小说是因为我很喜欢根据这部小说改编的同名音乐剧，那种充满节奏感和让人悸动的旋律吸引了我，印象最深刻的是萨拉那首撕心裂肺的《YOUR DADDY'S SON》，本以为小说跟音乐剧一样主要情节是关于科沃豪斯的悲剧，真的看了小说才知道这不是关于一个人的小说，而是一副...  

《拉格泰姆时代》读完，眼前不由浮现张择端的“清明上河图”。一幅画，画尽北宋时期都城东京汴河两岸世情繁华，戏剧性情节冲突，令观者看罢回味无穷。一本书，也几乎写尽了那个时代所有的繁华，余味无穷。 　　《拉格泰姆时代》作者E.L.多克托罗，美国当代著名作家，曾获...  

用户评价

读了好久，最后是在纽约的时候结束的，好巧！

读了好久，最后是在纽约的时候结束的，好巧！

好像一百多年前和现在也没有什么不同

超五星的小说

好像一百多年前和现在也没有什么不同