Manhattan Transfer: A Novel

Name: Manhattan Transfer: A Novel
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: John Dos Passos
ISBN: 9780618381869

John Dos Passos

02/09/2003
Mariner Books

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Couverture de Manhattan Transfer: A Novel par John Dos Passos

Résumé

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 masterpeice of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.