World's Fair

Title: World's Fair
Author: E.L. Doctorow


World's Fair received the 1986 National Book Award.

Answer.com says "World's Fair. Set during the 1939 World's Fair, the novel focuses on a young boy growing up in the Bronx and a world still coming out of the Depression, poised on the eve of World War II. It includes a loving picture of home life, a sense of secure domesticity that is relatively rare in the annals of great American fiction."

I absolutely disagree with the last sentence. Through out the story I felt a sense that the domestic life could crumble at any moment.

I enjoyed reading about NYC during the 1939 World's Fair.

-vicky