The Waterworks

A Novel

Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks.

ISBN:
978-0-8129-7819-3
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New York of 1870 is the background of this tale of a journalist who finds out that his father forged his own death so that he could be part of the experiment of a mad scientist to prolong his life.

21 editions

Subjects

  • Doctorow, E. L. - Prose & Criticism
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Historical
  • Historical - General
  • Fiction / General
  • Literary
  • Urban Life
  • 19th century
  • City and town life
  • History
  • New York
  • New York (State)
  • Young men