World's Fair Summary
E. L. Doctorow

World's Fair Summary

The concerns of a child's life—security, growth, fear, and love—are the subjects of World's Fair. The fictional child and the real author share the same first name, the same year of birth, and the same lower middle-class background in a Jewish section of the Bronx. E. L. Doctorow is playing games with history again, but this time the history is his own. The novel begins...

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