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Staff Reviews
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.
— Tom
Description
Manhattan Transfer narrates fragments of the life of a vast gallery of characters whose common denominator is the space and time in which they move, the New York of the twenties, as well as the main objective of most of them: obtaining money as fast and easy as possible. What marks a clear dividing line between them is the height at which they place their moral ready. The fact that the characters represent the most diverse social layers (dock workers, waiters in large hotels, prostitutes, alcohol traffickers, lawyers, trade unionists...) and the most distant origins (French, Irish, Caribbean, etc.) confer to this work the monumental character portrait of a city.
About the Author
John Dos Passos is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century world literature and one of the most influential. His style is part of the realism of the Chicago School that starred in the so-called little renaissance in the 1920s.
