Ragtime a Novel by the Author of The Book of Daniel

"Inaugurating Library of America's authoritative edition of the works of E. L. Doctorow, this volume gathers three novels that announced a major new voice in American fiction, and offered profoundly inventive and unflinching visions of American history. Doctorow's impeccably crafted debut book Welcome to Hard Times (1960) revisits romantic myths of the American frontier. Reduced to smoldering ruins by a sociopathic outlaw, the little town of Hard Times, somewhere in the Dakota Territory of the 1...