![]() Martin was convinced he had seen his father alive, in a coach in the company of other old men then Martin vanished. Martin Pemberton was the son of Augustus Pemberton, a brutal, cunning man who had made a fortune as a war profiteer, then died, leaving his family mysteriously penniless. The narrator, an elderly newspaperman named McIlvaine, recalls the bizarre events surrounding the disappearance of one of his paper's best freelance writers in 1871. The Waterworks, set in the corrupt but hideously exciting New York of the decade following the Civil War, is the strangest such journey yet. Each novel by Doctorow is an entirely different experience, a journey of the imagination into hitherto uncharted territory. ![]()
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