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Generally acknowledged to be Dos Passos' finest novel, MANHATTAN TRANSFER is a tapestry of many fragments of the New York scene. Characters appear and disappear like threads in a design, and, like any great composition, the whole is much more than the sum of its parts.
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"Dos Passos displays his power, his architectonic ability, and a poetic sense of rhythms, color, sounds and smells." (Boston Transcript)
Manhattan Transfer
Generally acknowledged to be Dos Passos' finest novel, MANHATTAN TRANSFER is a tapestry of many fragments of the New York scene. Characters appear and disappear like threads in a design, and, like any great composition, the whole is much more than the sum of its parts.
"Dos Passos displays his power, his architectonic ability, and a poetic sense of rhythms, color, sounds and smells." (Boston Transcript)
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593312056 |
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| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 01/05/2021 |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.40(d) |
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