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1919 : U.S.A. Trilogy #2 by Passos John Dos
Category: Fiction
With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental device ...Show more
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Category: Fiction
This is a portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, it has more in common with films than traditional novels ...Show more
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Love, loss, and alienation unify a collage of characters chasing the American Dream during New York's industrial expansion. A thinly veiled critique of American capitalism from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age.
Manhattan Transfer - A Novel by John Dos Passos
Category: Fiction
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 t ...Show more
The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. Trilogy #1) by Passos John Dos
Category: Fiction | Series: U. S. A. Trilogy Ser.
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Co ...Show more
The Big Money : U.S.A. Trilogy #3 by Passos John Dos
Category: Fiction
THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a na ...Show more
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Penguin Modern Classics" edition of John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its unique melange of fact and fiction, creates a compelling, tragic vision of America at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses 'came ...Show more
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