Surely deserving of a place among the great novels of the city of New York. Dos Passos’s high-speed interborough epic, published in 1925, darts kinetically between decades, class strata and neighborhoods, painting a vivid portrait of a metropolis and its metamorphoses.
— TomSince its 1925 publication, Manhattan Transfer has been widely recognized as a landmark in American modernism both for its jaundiced portrayal of the American Dream and for its experimentation with the novel form. Clear, factual annotations by the world's leading expert on Dos Passos's fi ction guides readers through the novel's dense representation of life in New York City during the turbulent early decades of the new century.