The Waterworks
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point.
“He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were.”
One rainy morning in 1871, in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton, a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancer’s fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorow’s skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, as described by the New York Times, “a dark moral tale…an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.”
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point.
“He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were.”
One rainy morning in 1871, in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton, a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancer’s fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorow’s skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, as described by the New York Times, “a dark moral tale…an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.”
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point.
“He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were.”
One rainy morning in 1871, in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton, a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancer’s fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorow’s skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, as described by the New York Times, “a dark moral tale…an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.”
ISBN 0-394-58754-5
E.L. Doctorow
1994