Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140083995
- ISBN 13
- 9780140083996
- Seller
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Hall of Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120221
- Title
- Manhattan Transfer
- Author
- John Dos Passos
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140083995
- ISBN 13
- 9780140083996
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / General;
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