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    <namePart>Doctorow, E. L.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1931-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Random House</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1994</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1994</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st trade ed.</edition>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
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