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Manhattan Transfer - by John Dos Passos (Paperback)

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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.
Author(s): John Dos Passos
342 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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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.

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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.

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"A novel of the very first importance." - Sinclair Lewis

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.23 Inches (H) x 5.51 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)

Weight: .79 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Sub-Genre: Literary

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Number of Pages: 342

Publisher: Mariner Books Classics

Format: Paperback

Author: John Dos Passos

Language: English

Street Date: September 2, 2003

TCIN: 77266730

UPC: 9780618381869

Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-4820

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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