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E.L. Doctorow's best-known novel, Ragtime, was published 50 years ago this month .
Set in New York at the dawn of the 20th century , the novel is set in a world in which industrial tycoons and Jewish émigrés rub shoulders with magicians and murderers.
At the centre of this whirligig is the “family” a conventional upper-class brood of unnamed individuals loosely based on Doctorow ’s relatives.
Doctorow is gesturing towards fiction’s capacity to imagine the day-to-day lives of historical figures.
We see Morgan , that “monarch of the invisible, transnational kingdom of capital” meeting Henry Ford to discuss esoteric theories of magic.
Harry Houdini is derailed by the eerie appearance of Harry K. Thaw , incarcerated for killing the architect Stanford White in a dispute over their shared lover, Evelyn Nesbitt .
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