The Resource The waterworks, E.L. Doctorow
The waterworks, E.L. Doctorow
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- Summary
- One rainy morning in 1871 young Martin Pemberton, walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan, sees in a passing horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st trade ed.
- Extent
- 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394587547
- Label
- The waterworks
- Title
- The waterworks
- Statement of responsibility
- E.L. Doctorow
- Title variation
- Water works
- Subject
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- Young men -- Fiction
- Young men -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- true1870s -- 1870 -- 1879
- City and town life -- Fiction
- City and town life -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueCity life -- New York City
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHuman experimentation in medicine
- trueKidnapping
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMissing persons -- New York City
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueNew York City -- History -- 19th century
- trueNewspaper editors -- New York City
- truePolitical corruption
- trueStaged deaths
- trueYoung men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- One rainy morning in 1871 young Martin Pemberton, walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan, sees in a passing horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father
- Summary
- When journalist Martin Pemberton thinks he has seen his dead father on a horse-drawn omnibus, he contacts Edmund Donne, the only honest New York policeman
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 1994.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 002025
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1931-2015
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Doctorow, E. L.
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3554.O3
- LC item number
- W3 1994
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- City and town life
- Young men
- City and town life
- Young men
- New York (N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The waterworks, E.L. Doctorow
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 13950922
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st trade ed.
- Extent
- 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394587547
- Lccn
- 93044735 //r942
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (InCu)1D398157D18F11D684F400E018312359
- (IMchF)fol00001919
- Label
- The waterworks, E.L. Doctorow
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 13950922
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st trade ed.
- Extent
- 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394587547
- Lccn
- 93044735 //r942
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (InCu)1D398157D18F11D684F400E018312359
- (IMchF)fol00001919
Subject
- Young men -- Fiction
- Young men -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- true1870s -- 1870 -- 1879
- City and town life -- Fiction
- City and town life -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueCity life -- New York City
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHuman experimentation in medicine
- trueKidnapping
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMissing persons -- New York City
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueNew York City -- History -- 19th century
- trueNewspaper editors -- New York City
- truePolitical corruption
- trueStaged deaths
- trueYoung men
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