Wednesday, May 6, 2020

WORLDS FAIR - E. L Doctorow

























Described as a semi autobiographical account of a boy named Edgar growing up in New York during the depression leading up to the World Fair in 1939.

I found it fully autobiographical and tedious.  Why he chose to do it this way when a full memoir would have made more sense to me anyway.

 Doctorow is a great writer but this like Loon Lake left me disappointed








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