A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, Dos Passos constructs a brilliant picture of New York City as a great futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy.
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A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, Dos Passos constructs a brilliant picture of New York City as a great futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy.
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
Release date | August 2000 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days |
First published | December 2008 |
Authors | John DOS Passos |
Introduction by | Jay McInerney |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - B-format |
Pages | 360 |
Edition | New Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-118448-7 |
Barcode | 9780141184487 |
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LSN | 0-14-118448-5 |