The Waterworks

E. L. Doctorow

earliest edition we have, 1994 Plume, 1997 264 pages

Mirovoĭ bestseller

New York of 1870 is the background of this tale of a journalist who finds out that his father forged his own death so that he could be part of the experiment of a mad scientist to prolong his life.

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Editions we hold

El Arca Del Agua edition · 2014 · Roca · 290 pages · 9788499187167
Waterworks edition · 2010 · Random House, Incorporated · 9781299030060
L'acquedotto di New York edition · 2007 · Oscar Mondadori · 250 pages · 9788804564706
The Waterworks paperback · 2007 · Random House Trade Paperbacks · 272 pages · 9780812978193
El arca de agua paperback · 2002 · Muchnik · 316 pages
El arca de agua paperback · 1998 · El Aleph Editores · 318 pages · 9788476692332
Kloaka edition · 1998 · Novosti · 317 pages · 9785702010649
The waterworks edition · 1997 · Plume · 264 pages
Waterworks edition · 1996 · Random House Value Publishing · 253 pages · 9780517170922
The waterworks edition · 1995 · Picador · 320 pages
El arca de agua edition · 1995 · Editorial Atlántida · 318 pages
The Waterworks paperback · 1995 · Picador · 9780330356664

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