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RAGTIME By E. L. Doctorow First published in 1974 The author thanks the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Creative Artists Program Service for fellowships awarded during the period in which this novel was written Respectfully dedicated to Rose Doctorow Buck Do not play this piece fast It is never right to play Ragtime fast …— Scott Joplin I 1 In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York. It was a three-story brown shingle with dormers, bay windows and a screened porch. Striped awnings shaded the windows. The family took posses