Manhattan Transfer (Paperback)

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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

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John Dos Passos' ground breaking novel Manhattan Transfer is a landmark literary achievement. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary American urban life portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy restlessness and possibilities that too few will ultimately share. Manhattan Transfer was inspired in part by James Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. In it we meet a large ensemble cast of characters who are struggling failing and some few succeeding in the brutally exciting New York City of the Jazz Age. A novel of the very first importance. The dawn of a whole new school of writing. -Sinclair Lewis The best modern book about New York. -D. H. Lawrence Dos Passos] has been able to show to Europeans the America they really find when they come here. -Ernest Hemingway.
Product Details
ISBN: 9798880907779
Publisher: Start Classics
Publication Date: May 8th, 2024
Pages: 326
Language: English