{"product_id":"worlds-fair-paperback","title":"World's Fair - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. L. Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\"Marvelous . . . You get lost in \u003ci\u003eWorld's Fair \u003c\/i\u003eas if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant novel is one of E.L. 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. For nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler, life is stoopball and radio serials, idolizing Joe DiMaggio, and enduring the conflicts between his realist mother and his dreamer of a father. The forthcoming Word's Fair beckons, an amazing vision of American automation, inventiveness, and prosperity--and Edgar Altschuler responds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA marvelous work from a master storyteller, \u003ci\u003eWorld's Fair\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about a boy who must surrender his innocence to come of age, and a generation that must survive great hardship to reach its future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWorld's Fair\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Something close to magic.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWorld's Fair\u003c\/i\u003e is better than a time capsule; it's an actual slice of a long-ago world, and we emerge from it as dazed as those visitors standing on the corner of the future.\"\u003cb\u003e--Anne Tyler\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Doctorow has managed to regain the awed perspective of a child in this novel of rare warmth and intimacy. . . . Stony indeed in the heart that cannot be moved by this book.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating . . . exquisitely rendered details of a lost way of life.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderful reading.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. L. Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e's works of fiction include \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, City of God, The March, Homer \u0026amp; Langley, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAndrew's Brain. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN\/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer's lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN\/ Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose \"scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the highest rank of American literature.\" In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. In 2014 he was honored with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174911119495,"sku":"9780812978209","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/131b6133cfd706825f1ee67e70d7c576.webp?v=1733377773","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/worlds-fair-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}