World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow

Praise for World’s Fair. A world of lif. novel of rare warmth and intimacy. Extraordinary in its crystalline detail. Doctorow captures and makes fast the magic of a time of innocence and wonders. When you finish reading E. L. Doctorow’s marvelous novel, you shake your head in disbelief and ask yourself how he has managed to do i. .You get lost in World’s Fair as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.

I believe World’s Fair is a literary reproduction by E. Doctorow of his own childhood – the novel is so compassionate and it is full of authentic feelings. I imagined houses as superior beings who talked silently to each other. Child’s imagination, child’s fantasies and I believe World’s Fair is a literary reproduction by E. The World’s Fair was written by . Doctorow and won the National Book Award in 1986. It is largely an autobiographical novel of a boy, Edgar, growing up in the Bronx in the 1930’s. His fun-loving father owns a prominent music store. His mother is the adult in the relations The World’s Fair was written by .

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About book: E. Doctorow’s World’s Fair chronicles Edgar Altschuler’s recollections of his first ten years of existence, the growth of his childish awareness of the difficulties of life, and the personal handicaps placed on him as he attempts to acquire self-assurance and experience happiness. Edgar is a Jewish boy growing up in New York City’s Bronx during the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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World's Fair: A Novel . E. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931, in the Bronx, New York. in philosophy in 1952 from Kenyon College and did graduate work at Columbia University. Army Signal Corps from 1953-1955. The Book of Daniel and Billy Bathgate were also adapted into films. He received the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for his outstanding achievement in fiction writing. He died of complications from lung cancer on July 21, 2015 at the age of 84.

Complete summary of E. Doctorow's World's Fair. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of World's Fair. (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series). In comparison to Doctorow’s earlier novels, World’s Fair seems remarkably straightforward. It resembles a work of conventional nonfiction, and like a memoir, it is largely bound by a chronological structure. Much of the action is seen through the consciousness of a young boy, Edgar, growing up in the Bronx during the 1939-1940 World’s Fair. Given the character’s name and background, it is difficult not to conclude that Doctorow has himself and his family in mind. XC, November 10, 1985, p. 3. Newsweek. CVI, November 4, 1985, p. 69. Parks, John G. Doctorow. New York: Continuum, 1991.

Hailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant novel is one of . Doctorow’s greatest works of fiction. It is 1939, and even as the rumbles of progress are being felt worldwide, New York City clings to remnants of the past, with horse-drawn wagons, street peddlers, and hurdy-gurdy men still toiling in its streets.

The narrator in World's Fair has the same first name as Doctorow, Edgar. His father, mother and brother are, like Doctorow's, respectively called Dave, Rose and Donald. When Edgar tells us about his family dog being run over or the magic of the music shop were Dave works, the recollections are so clear and powerfully felt that it seems impossible that these things did not happen to the author himself. But Doctorow also adds a smattering of chapters in the voices of Rose, Dave, Donald and his aunt Frances. These are addressed to the narrator himself, in the manner an elderly relative.