Manhattan Transfer

by Dos Passos, John Roderigo

• ISBN13: 9780618381869
• ISBN10: 0618381864
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-02
• Publisher: Houghton Miff

Summary

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. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpeice of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.

Author Biography

John Dos Passos (1896-1970), a member of the Lost Generation, was the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including THREE SOLDIERS and MANHATTAN TRANSFER.

Table of Contents

Ferryslip	p. 3
Metropolis	p. 11
Dollars	p. 41
Tracks	p. 65
Steamroller	p. 94
Great Lady on a White Horse	p. 109
Longlegged Jack of the Isthmus	p. 122
Nine Days' Wonder	p. 143
Fire Engine	p. 171
Went to the Animals' Fair	p. 184
Five Statutory Questions	p. 201
Rollercoaster	p. 211
One More River to Jordan	p. 216
Rejoicing City That Dwelt Carelessly	p. 231
Nickelodeon	p. 248
Revolving Doors	p. 260
Skyscraper	p. 298
The Burthen of Nineveh	p. 315
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