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One rainy day in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton, a freelance copy writer sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly deceased and buried dad. While looking to unravel the secret, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his company, the editor of an evening paper, in search of the reality behind his freelancer's fate. Layer by covering, McIlvaine reveals today's metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring performs the city because of its own earnings and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorow's skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in what of The NY Times, "a dark moral tale . . . an eloquently troubling evocation of the past."

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