The waterworks
E.L. Doctorow.
- 1st trade ed.
- New York : Random House, c1994.
- 253 p. ; 25 cm.
In post-Civil War New York City, a young pedestrian recognizes his supposedly dead father riding in a passing horse-drawn omnibus. One rainy morning in 1871 young Martin Pemberton, walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan, sees in a passing horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.
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City and town life--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century--Fiction. Young men--New York (State)--New York--Fiction. Historical fiction.