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Manhattan Transfer
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.
"A novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis), Manhattan Transfer is a masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.
Book Details
- Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
- Publish Date: Sep 2nd, 2003
- Pages: 342
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.23in - 5.51in - 0.90in - 0.79lb
- EAN: 9780618381869
- Categories: • Literary• City Life• Psychological
About the Author
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the twentieth century, writing over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs.
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What people are saying
I write, draw, support climate science and clean energy, and curate the literary legacy of my grandfather, John Dos Passos. Batman, Marvel fan. Opinions my own.
New review of John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer by novelist @BlackmanAndrew. "Much has changed in a century, but the Staten Island ferry was instantly recognisable from his description, which opens the book" https://t.co/ntAfyUTpeC
Richard Smyth is a novelist, critic and wildlife writer.
"Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing." John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer.
Still hoping to see the world become a better place, and should probably do a bit more myself towards making that happen. Oh, and I listen to the Archers...
John dos Passos.!! I think I've still got a battered early paperback edition of Manhattan Transfer somewhere, that I bought in a secondhand bookshop that used to be by the bus pull-in at #barnet Church.!! #pointless
Praise for this book
"A novel of the very first importance." - Sinclair Lewis --
What people are saying
I write, draw, support climate science and clean energy, and curate the literary legacy of my grandfather, John Dos Passos. Batman, Marvel fan. Opinions my own.
New review of John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer by novelist @BlackmanAndrew. "Much has changed in a century, but the Staten Island ferry was instantly recognisable from his description, which opens the book" https://t.co/ntAfyUTpeC