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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.
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).
While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their own little corners, John Dos Passos was taking on the world.
As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make appearances.
Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this Parallel and blown New Yorkward.
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.
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.
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).
As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameo appearances.
Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this Parallel and blown New Yorkward.
Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold.
The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page.
Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.
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While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their own little corners, John Dos Passos was taking on the world. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel.
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