Binding: Paperback
Description: The first in John Dos Passos's acclaimed US a trilogy a linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age his and ours (The New Yorker). John Dos Passos's US a 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.
Title: The 42nd Parallel
Author(s): Dos Passos John
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Barcode: 9780618056811
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 5/25/2000
Category: Classic Fiction