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Available
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Description
Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. HTML: 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..
Publication
Mariner Books (2003), Edition: 1st, 352 pages
Pages
352
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Physical description
352 p.; 5.5 inches
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Media reviews
The Bookman
To me, Manhattan Transfer is the best modern book about New York that I have read. It is an endless series of glimpses of people in the vast scuffle of Manhattan Island, as they turn up again and again and again, in a confusion that has no obvious rhythm, but wherein at last we recognize the
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systole-diastole of success and failure, the end being all failure, from the point of view of life; and then another flight towards another nowhere...
The scenes whirl past like snowflakes. Broadway at night — whizz! gone! — a quick-lunch counter! gone! — a house on Riverside Drive, the Palisades, night — gone! But, gradually, you get to know the faces. It is like a movie picture with an intricacy of different stories and no close-ups and no writing in between. Mr. Dos Passos leaves out the writing in between. Show Less
LCC
PS3507.O743 M3
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ISBN
0618381864 / 9780618381869
UPC
046442381864