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      Manhattan Transfer

      by John Dos Passos
      Published
      Sep 2000
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      A masterpiece of modernist fiction that creates a vividly impressionistic portrait of a teeming and multi-faceted New York City

      In a series of overlapping stories, John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer takes us from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age in a narrative collage that brings the complexity of the urban environment to life. From Wall Street to the waterfront, from the Bowery to the Village, from the city's grand avenues to its gritty alleys, its wealthy power brokers and its struggling immigrants, this kaleidoscopic novel conveys the restless energy of life in Manhattan. The innovative novelistic techniques Dos Passos used, marked by flashbacks, stream of consciousness, and a cinematic perspective, would go on to inspire a new school of writing. Almost a century after it was written, Manhattan Transfer remains an indelible tribute to the contradictions of the American dream.

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      First Edition Sep 2000 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141184487 ISBN10 0141184485
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      Sep 2003 Mariner ISBN13 9780618381869 ISBN10 0618381864
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      Jan 2021 Vintage ISBN13 9780593312056 ISBN10 0593312058
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      Sep 2003 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780547526690 ISBN10 0547526695
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      May 2016 HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH ISBN10 B01G3RRGPA
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