Dos Passos, John 1896-1970 creator text Fiction. History. nyu New York Library of America Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books �1996 1996 monographic eng

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1288 pages ; 21 cm. Unique among American novels for its epic scope and panoramic and social sweep, John Dos Passos' U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. In the novels that make up the trilogy - The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) - Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics. In his prologue Dos Passos writes: "U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public library full of old newspapers and dogeared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil ... But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people." The trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. The volume contains newly researched chronologies of Dos Passos' life and of world events cited in U.S.A., notes, and an essay on textual selection. The 42nd parallel -- 1919 -- The big money. Modern Library's 100 Best Novels. n-us--- United States History Fiction United States Social conditions Fiction Social conditions United States PS3507.O743 A6 1996 813/.52 18.06 Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. New York : Library of America ; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books, �1996 (OCoLC)604744098 1883011140 9781883011147 95049282 Penguin Group USA, C/O Penguin Putnam Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1207/95049282-b.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1207/95049282-b.html DLC 951108 20151023232432.0 ocm33819088 eng