Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. It is considered to be one of Dos …
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Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to 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) and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and bears frequent comparison to the 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."
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- LibraryThing key:
- 36016
- BNF ID:
- 12049099b
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Manhattan Transfer
Paperback, 471 pages
Spanish language
Published 1986 by Plaza & Janés.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-01-42181-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 433983040
Manhattan Transfer
Paperback, 436 pages
Spanish language
Published July 23, 1999 by Debate.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-8306-246-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 433396722
- Goodreads:
- 1180841
Manhattan Transfer
Paperback, 502 pages
Published by Hece Yayinlari.
- ISBN:
- 978-605-9556-27-9Copied ISBN!
Manhattan transfer
Paperback
French language
Published 1990 by Futuropolis.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7376-2678-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 38240245
- Goodreads:
- 1180844
Manhattan Transfer
Hardcover, 576 pages
Published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A..
- ISBN:
- 978-84-350-0957-7Copied ISBN!
Manhattan transfer. edici¢n especial 60 aniversario
Hardcover, 576 pages
Published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A..
- ISBN:
- 978-84-350-3344-2Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
Hardcover, 326 pages
Published by Wilder Publications.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5154-4910-2Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer (French Language Edition)
Paperback, 499 pages
English language
Published Oct. 1, 1976 by French & European Pubns.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7859-1831-8Copied ISBN!
Manhattan transfer
342 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Co..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-618-38186-9Copied ISBN!
MANHATTAN TRANSFER
368 pages
English language
Published by Penguin Books Ltd.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118448-7Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
519 pages
French language
Published Nov. 4, 2021
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-293747-7Copied ISBN!
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