Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer often regarded as John Dos Passoss best work is a expressionistic portrait of New York (New York Times) in the 1920s that depicts the lifestyles of powerful people as well as impoverished immigrants. Dos Passos follows the lives of those trying to fit into modernity before they are obliterated by it from Fourteenth Street to the Bowery Delmonicos to the gritty city shoreline. After being initially published more than 75 years ago Manhattan Transfer is still regarded as a novel of the very first importance (Sinclair Lewis). It is an outstanding work of contemporary literature and an enduring hymn to the contradictory essence of the American dream.