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Original Title:	Manhattan Transfer
ISBN:	0618381864 (ISBN13: 9780618381869)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

Paperback | Pages: 342 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 4547 Users | 391 Reviews

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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 masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.

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Title	:	Manhattan Transfer
Author	:	John Dos Passos
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 342 pages
Published	:	September 2nd 2003 by Mariner Books (first published 1925)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. New York. 20th Century. The United States Of America. Novels

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Hopeless MigrationNew York City was, perhaps still is, defined not so much geographically as spiritually by the unfulfilled aspirations of the people who migrate to it. And those migrants historically have come as much from the American hinterland as they have from across the ocean. Manhattan Tranfer was a stop on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Newark, New Jersey before the tunnel under the Hudson connecting the mainline to Manhattan was completed. Once you arrived there, you had nowhere else to

It is amazing how so many different voices are followed, threaded together through the narrative, to tell a story about what it was to be a person alive at that time and at that place as opposed to just the story of a single person or even any of the particular characters. There are so many hops and jumps it can be a bit difficult to remember who is who and when, especially since characters can change sometimes fairly drastically between their portions, but overall the effect is well handled. I

it's a masterpiece. seriously. an important book. top shelf material. read this, please. dos passos deserves resurrection.i don't know how he sustains such gripping imagery over the course of the novel. just look at his descriptions of ellie, in any situation, or his love notes to tall buildings. it's gorgeous.

I had avoided Dos Passos novels for fear that they would be deadeningly political. Was I ever wrong? This book is wonderfully enjoyable. Told in impressionistic vignettes the book moves quickly as stars on the Manhattan stage rise and fall. Dos Passos indictment of the materialism and soulessness of turn of the century New York is told with neither sentiment nor heartlessness, but falls in a middle ground-dispassionate. The time frames can be confusing. For instance, in the beginning the

This is a book (my very first by this author) that I simply loved from page one to closing page. I wish it was longer as in my mind its worthy in all the aspects. And I smile even now upon finishing it because I am reminded myself that the decision to start reading this book peacefully residing on my private bookshelves from last summer bookfair was that the author is named Dos Passos alongside with John Roderigoand well, in the last novel I read of Jose Saramago The Stone Raft the main

Funny, bloated socialist pamphlet masquerading as experimental Modernist novel. Gain and drops characters at will, as New York does. A portrait of a city in the pangs of rebirth. Pretty images and a memorable ensemble (we will always love you, Emile!).

This is the most readable "experimental" novel I've encountered, actually a "page-turner" with a variety of interesting plots, believable characters, and a vivid portrait of Manhattan. There are techniques more commonly used in film: events presented from several different viewpoints; similar events repeated and juxtaposed like the fires, ship dockings, or sunrises; characters whose social positions reverse (eerily like Proust, whose novels cover the same time period); and the quick passage