Finished Th 3/18/21
This is one of my old trade paperbacks and I finished it at The Club on 3/12/95
It's a very well-written novel, but I skimmed to the end.
The novel is set in NYC slightly before and after the Civil War (1841-1871). Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed are peripheral characters in the novel.
The mystery is that a very rich oligarch is reported to have died, but his adult son, late one night, sees his father in a coach with other men. What is going on is the old man has teamed up with a doctor, Dr. Sartorious, who is taking children's blood and injecting the blood into the bodies of old men. This procedure is supposed to make them younger.
Dr. Satorious is also a character in Doctorow's 'THE MARCH' and I have a copy of this novel and I plan to check it out.
A kind of weak premise, but the book was well written and you get a real sense of what it would be like to live in NYC in the middle of the 19th century.
From the book's page at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waterworks
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