Manhattan Transfer
Published on 23. March 2021
352 pages
978-1-64974-140-0 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Person
John Dos Passos
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- First Section
- Ferryslip
- Metropolis
- Dollars
- Tracks
- Steamroller
- Second Section
- Great Lady on a White Horse
- Long-Legged Jack of the Isthmus
- Nine Days' Wonder
- Fire Engine
- Went to the Animals' Fair
- Five Statutory Questions
- Rollercoaster
- One More River to Jordan
- Third Section
- Rejoicing City That Dwelt Carelessly
- Nickelodeon
- Revolving Doors
- Skyscraper
- The Burthen of Nineveh
