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Ragtime

by E. L. Doctorow · first published 1975

Ragtime is a 1975 historiographic metafiction novel by American author E. L. Doctorow. The novel mixes historical figures and fictional characters together in a sweeping narrative set in the New York City area from 1902 to 1915. With its layered storyline, Ragtime explores themes of racial injustice, class division, and the American Dream in American society. Though the novel stirred some controversy over the creative liberties Doctorow took depicting historical figures, Ragtime was critically acclaimed upon release, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1975.

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