![]() Novel of ideas, an allegory of vitality, mortality and the manipulation of nature. Of the genre - a body that refuses to stay dead, an incredulous storyteller sucked into the Perilous Pursuit of Truth, an omniscient, laconic and socially awkward policeman - his book is actually designed to be a heavyweight For although he uses all the classic devices Doctorow makes his narrator, a newspaper editor named McIlvaine, insist, this is no ghost story. This is not to say that "The Waterworks" is mere Gotham Gothic. Doctorow has truly exhumed are the remains of the 19th-century genre of the science-detection mystery, originated by Poe and richly developed by Bierce and Spellbinding new novel, "The Waterworks." But what Mr. An exhumation also plays an important part in E. ![]() "One Summer Night," one of Ambrose Bierce's most wicked short stories: two pages long, a coffin-side view of an exhumation. He fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince." Thus begins JNew York, Gaslight Necropolis By SIMON SCHAMA ![]()
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