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
410 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 1991 by Mariner Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-395-57423-2Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
Hardcover
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-395-07616-3Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
221 pages
English language
Published Oct. 10, 1983 by Houghton Mifflin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-395-08375-8Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
audio cassette
Published by Books On Tape.
- ISBN:
- 978-99986-0-853-5Copied ISBN!
Manhadun zhong zhuan zhan
330 pages
Chinese language
Published Sept. 10, 2006 by Chongqing chu ban she.
- ISBN:
- 978-7-5366-7655-8Copied ISBN!
Manhattan transfer
404 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 1953 by Houghton, Mifflin.
- OCLC Number:
- 4889067
Manhattan transfer.
English language
Published Sept. 10, 1986 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-008399-6Copied ISBN!
Manhattan transfer
404 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 1925 by Harper & Brothers.
- OCLC Number:
- 1036680106
Manhattan Transfer
514 pages
German language
Published 1975 by Aufbau-Verlag.
- OCLC Number:
- 258136798
Nuova York
447 pages
Italian language
Published 1932 by Edizioni Corbaccio.
- OCLC Number:
- 84594679
Manhattan Transfer (Warbler Classics)
English language
Published 2021 by Warbler Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-954525-63-4Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
Audio Cassette
Published Nov. 1, 1983 by Books on Tape, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7366-0354-6Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
English language
Published 2022 by Dover Publications, Incorporated.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-486-85133-4Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer
English language
Published 2021 by Digireads.com Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4209-7356-3Copied ISBN!
Manhattan Transfer (Warbler Classics)
English language
Published 2021 by Warbler Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-954525-64-1Copied ISBN!
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