E.L. Doctorow - World's Fair: A Novel

Review: Imagine taking your late-model time machine for a spin around the block and?BAM!?you land in 1939, a year when America teetered between the dark years of the Great Depression and the equally dark years of the coming world war. You?re in New York...

The Bottom Line: World's Fair succeeds in the aims it sets itself - it recreates the 1930s in astonishing, surprising detail. it sometimes fails as a story.

Review: E. L. Doctorow's World's Fair is one of those very American novels, a tale of growing up and expanding horizons, of innocence lost as the scales covering the hero's eyes are removed. It is the story of Edgar, a very young boy with a loving, tired...

Review: Do you remember what childhood was like? Back when the simplest things, like a street cleaner truck, gave you the greatest sense of wonder. E. L. Doctorow does, and he reminds us about it with his wondrous novel, World's Fair.

The novel...