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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

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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.