Time and Again | Social Concerns
Time and Again describes Si Motley's discovery that he can live in two different eras: contemporary New York City and the New York City of 1882. He must decide in which era he wishes to spend the rest of his life.
The context of the novel is the radicalism of the late 1960s, The novel reflects the worry about the dying city, the traditional urban centers threatened by white flight, black rioting, and resulting urban blight. It grows, too, out of crisis of authority prompted by the Vietnam War, the growing realization that citizens should not leave all important decisions to...
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