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John Dos Passos: U.S.A. (LOA #85) - The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Hardcover, New)
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John Dos Passos: U.S.A. (LOA #85) - The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Hardcover, New)
Series: Library of America John Dos Passos Edition, 2
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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.
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