The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy - Softcover

Buch 1 von 3: U.S.A. Trilogy

Dos Passos, John Roderigo

 
9780618056811: The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0618056815 ISBN 13: 9780618056811
Verlag: Mariner Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world. 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.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page.

The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, 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 cameo appearances.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Dos Passos (1896–1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the twentieth century, writing over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs. 

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0618056815
ISBN 13 
9780618056811
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
348
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