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Manhattan Transfer
John dos Passos
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Description for Manhattan Transfer
Paperback. Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and jumbled case histories of a picaresque cast of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, the author constructs a portrait of New York City as a futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker)
'A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s' Christopher Hudson, Evening Standard
'Dos Passos has invented only one thing, an art of story-telling. But that is enough to create a universe' Jean-Paul Sartre
'The best modern book about New York'
D.H. Lawrence
A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd England
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141184487
SKU
V9780141184487
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99-99
About John dos Passos
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the ... Read more
Reviews for Manhattan Transfer
[John Dos Passos's books are] the most satisfying thing I have ever read
Adam Curtis
Guardian
Adam Curtis
Guardian