num_pages: 369
description: Ragtime is set in America at the beginning of the 20th century. Its characters: three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with people whose names are Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emilio Zapata.It is a novel so original, so full of imagination and subtle pleasure, that to describe it further would only dilute the pure joy of reading. Turn to the first page. Begin. You will never have read anything like Ragtime before. Nothing quite like it has ever been written before.
language: English
title: Ragtime
titlecomplete: Ragtime
characters: Coalhouse Walker, Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan
genres: 20th Century, American, New York, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 42936
places: New York City, New York, New Rochelle, New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Bantam Books