Almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. The novel interweaves fictional characters with actual historic events and figures. Ragtime, a classic work of historical fiction first published in 1975, details the lives of three families in early 20th-century New York.
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