Manhattan Transfer

Dos Passos, John

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Titre : Manhattan Transfer

Éditeur : Harper & Brothers

Date d'édition : 1926

Reliure : Hard Cover

Etat du livre : Good

Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket - Pictorial Cover

Edition : 4th Printing

Description :

4th printing. No jacket - pictorial cover. Boards rubbed, front hinge repaired. 1926 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 404 pp. Unique Manhattan cityscape paper over boards cover. Black cloth spine. "Manhattan Transfer is a novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the urban life of New York City in the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. It is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The book shows some of Dos Passos' experimental writing techniques and narrative collages that would become more pronounced in his U.S.A. trilogy and other later works. The technique in Manhattan Transfer was inspired in part by James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and experiments with film collage by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. Sinclair Lewis described it as "a novel of the very first importance . The dawn of a whole new school of writing." D.H. Lawrence called it "the best modern book about New York" he had ever read, describing it as "a very complete film . of the vast loose gang of strivers and winners and losers which seems to be the very pep of New York." In a blurb for a European edition, Ernest Hemingway wrote that, alone among American writers, Dos Passos has "been able to show to Europeans the America they really find when they come here." - Wikipedia. N° de réf. du libraire 1524387