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Title	:	World's Fair
Author	:	E.L. Doctorow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1996 by Plume (first published October 12th 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. New York. Classics

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Hope Is Where You Find It Doctorow's World's Fair is, for me, an important document touching on family history. My mother was 11 years old when she visited Flushing Meadows in 1939 and it influenced her life as significantly as it did Doctorow's. Both he and his avatar 'Edgar' were two years younger than my mother. New York City was (and of course largely still is) a city of immigrants and the children of immigrants. In other words it is a place of constant dislocation and dissolution. It doesn't so much melt into a pot as anneal on a blacksmith's iron. But the depression of the 1930's added a component of desperation to the lives of many that is the stage set in which his protagonist functions. For Edgar the Worlds Fair is not just a glimpse of other worlds, but rather, as for my mother, the symbol of a hope for a new world. It was almost an excuse to feel good. Edgar's father with his failing business sees it expressly as that, in almost the same words I am sure my mother quoted to me from my grandfather. The experiences that affected Edgar most deeply weren't the visions of new technologies or urban designs but the 'trivial' encounters like the archly vulgar sideshow 'Oscar the Amorous Octopus'. For my mother it was the bank of valves that released small amounts of unusual fragrances. The one that stuck in her mind was labelled, she found only after testing it, Human Gas.

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Original Title:	World's Fair
ISBN:	0452275725 (ISBN13: 9780452275720)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1986)

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I believe Worlds Fair is a literary reproduction by E. L. 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.Childs imagination, childs fantasies and memories of our childhood are all dear to us. And I suppose there is always some central recollection that remains with us during our entire life. My father had predicted the Fair would be good for business. He explained that

While I see considerable value in the book, I was not blown away by it. Edgar Altschuler, a stand in for Doctorow (Edgar Lawrence Doctorow), tells of his early family life and comes of age in the era just prior to World War II. Change is in the air, symbolized by the fair and occasional dark news from Europe. The family suffers from hard times as his father is not able to sustain a decent income, partly from the nature of the times, but also the result of a toxic gambling habit (and maybe other

Im not sure what youd call this (memoir? novel? cultural history book?), but whatever it is, it works. Young Edgar, bright and observant, describes Jewish family life as he knew it growing up in the Bronx in the 1930s. E. L. Doctorow (E for Edgar) presumably didnt stray far from his own experiences to write this. The boyhood sketches spanned the whole decade, ending the year of New Yorks iconic Fair when Edgar was 9. It was told in a voice that combined a kids sense of wonder with an adults more

I wanted to like this more than I did. It is filled, filled, filled with accurate details of life in the Bronx during the 30s, ending in 1940 with the New York World's Fair. Everything is described, and all is well described - the news, the clothes, the food, new inventions, the street life, games, parks, Jewish traditions. This is a secular Jewish family. Seeing the Hindenburg airship was excitingly told to site just one fun episode. What you get is a million and one descriptions. The book ends

Set during the 1930s this is the story of the boyhood of Edgar Altschuler growing up in the Bronx. It is wonderfully told and set against the backdrop of the Depression and the start of the Second War. The best books have memorable passages. When I look back to my favourites that is what stands out, and Worlds Fair has plenty of them. These key passages for me are ones that resonate with my own childhood, albeit three or four years older than Edgar. Edgars appreciation of music comes from his

The late E.L. Doctorow's (1931 -- 2015) novel "World's Fair (1985) is a lyrical autobiographical story about growing up in the New York City during the Depression.. Most of the book is told in the first person by an adult, "Edgar", who reflects upon his childhood up to the age of about nine. The adult writer has also approached family members for their reminisces, and some chapters of the book are in the words of the boy's mother, Rose, brother, Donald, father, Dave, and his Aunt Frances.A

I read this book at the same time as Jane Smiley's upcoming novel Some Luck, which was an interesting experience. While Smiley's characters are given voices appropriate to their age (a child sees the world through a child's eyes), Doctorow's Edgar is looking back at his childhood and waxing philosophic. There are also a few odd chapters here and there told by other characters, as if written in a letter to Edgar. Interesting and unique story structure for an interesting and unique story. For a