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Manhattan Transfer : A Novel by John Dos Passos (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100618381864
ISBN-139780618381869
eBay Product ID (ePID)2485474
Product Key Features
Book TitleManhattan Transfer : a Novel
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicClassics, Romance / Historical / Medieval, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Dos Passos
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/2
SynopsisConsidered 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., 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., 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.
