Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
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By John Dos Passos 15 Jan, 2025
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants a ... Read more

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike.

From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.

More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.

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  • 978-0618381869
John Roderigo Dos Passos (Jan 14, 1896 – Sep 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he...
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