Manhattan Transfer

Name: Manhattan Transfer
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: John Dos Passos
ISBN: 9781977337382

Author: John Dos Passos

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 12 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2019

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

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 ninety 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.

About John Dos Passos

Author John Dos Passos (1896-1970), a member of the Lost Generation, published more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Three Soldiers and Manhattan Transfer. His masterpiece is his U.S.A. trilogy, consisting of The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim

I’m going to pull a GJ (Ginnie Jones) here and state: ”Manhattan Transfer is a kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in the first two decades of the 20th century that follows the changing fortunes of more than a dozen characters as they strive to make sense out of the chaos of modern urban existen......more

Goodreads review by Bram

This novel is very caleidoscopic and switches from one storyline to another very rapidly which makes it hard to follow sometimes. In the end all characters seem to flow in and out of each other. Maybe it was meant that way. It does give a very vivid sense of life in New York city in that era.......more

Goodreads review by Meike

I've first read this classic ages ago, and now re-read it for a scientific paper on Arbeit, a city novel that depicts contemporary life in Berlin and was inspired by "Manhattan Transfer". What I love about both novels is that they achieve to show the big city both as a moloch and a melting pot; as a......more