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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)

World's Fair

E.L. Doctorow

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 3904 Users | 310 Reviews

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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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Title	:	World's Fair
Author	:	E.L. Doctorow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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

Meh. What's to like? Maybe the chapters at the end about the kid's actual visit to the fair with his young girlfriend, although I found it creepy that he watches the girl's mother do an erotic act with a mechanical octopus. Other than that bit of bluster, nothing much happens. I was puzzled by some of "young Edgar's" vocabulary; I had to read some sentences twice and still wasn't sure what Doctorow was getting at. And they don't teach about comma splices in the Bronx? Also, the sections narrated

E.L. Doctorow's 'World's Fair' is amazing. It's easily one of the most evocative expressions of childhood that I've read.The story - largely autobiographical - takes place in the 1930s, at war's brink. The World's Fair is taking place in NYC, and young Edgar, a Jewish kid, is desperate to attend. What unfolds between the start of the book and the inevitable trip to the Fair is nothing short of brilliant. Keenly-felt explanations of what it meant to be a youth in the 30s (and a Jew) are offered

"World's Fair" is a novel that sort of creeps up on you. It has no discernable plot; it is merely snippets of moments in a young Jewish boy's life in New York City in the 1930s. It is a very detailed work; E.L. Doctorow creates the sense of place vividly. You are there when he describes something.The book is told from the perspective of Edgar Altschuler, a young man looking back on details of his youth. Of the text's 31 chapters all are from his point of view with the exception of four from his

E. L. Doctorows Worlds Fair chronicles Edgar Altschulers recollections of his first ten years of existence, the growth of his childish awareness of the difficulties of life, and the personal handicaps placed on him as he attempts to acquire self-assurance and experience happiness. Edgar is a Jewish boy growing up in New York Citys Bronx during the rise of Nazism in Germany. His health is problematic. His familys economic stability is tenuous. His parents relationship is combative. The younger

While I was reading this book, I thought--THIS is why I read books. We can't experience everything during our lives. I will never walk on the Moon--or go to Middle Earth or Pellucidar, for that matter. If we use our imaginations, guided by good writing, we can gain new experiences beyond what is possible in our own lives. That's how I feel about E.L. Doctorow's book "World's Fair," published in 1985. I felt like I was living in the Jewish community in the Bronx in the 1930s, growing up along

I loved this book. It is set in the Bronx of the 30s. My mother grew up there in those days and told me many stories about it. Reading about Morris High School (her alma mater), the Grand Concourse, Jerome Avenue, the automat, and more made it seem very special to me, although I haven't seen any of those places for nearly 50 years and then only once. It was kind of like City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder, a well-loved book of my youth, and Radio Days, one of my favorite films. Will