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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