John Dos Passos

The 42nd Parallel -- John Dos Passos, Paperback

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The first in John Dos Passos's acclaimed USA trilogy--a "linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age--his, and ours" (The New Yorker).

John Dos Passos's USA trilogy (comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money), named one of the best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page.

Told in stories and newsreels consisting of front-page headlines and article fragments from the Chicago Tribune, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make appearances.

While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their own little corners, John Dos Passos was taking on the world.

Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 05/25/2000
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.56w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780618056811

Product Tags:

20th Century, Alternative History, Classics, Fiction, Fiction - General, Historical, Historical fiction, John Dos Passos, Mariner Books Classics, Paperback, U.S.A. Trilogy

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