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Manhattan Transfer: A Novel by John Dos Passos

Manhattan Transfer: A Novel John Dos Passos ebook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618381869
Format: pdf
Page: 352

Jan 3, 2012 - Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Travers is mentioned fondly because Travers is a Michigan supreme court justice, mentioned fondly not because he's a judge but because he's from Michigan, where the novel is largely set. 6 days ago - This novel is posthumous, and--I suspect--incomplete. Eleven chapters The characters are related in one way or another, sometimes by blood, sometimes tangentially, in the style of John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer. And I think it's really neat that Manhattan Transfer was named after the John Dos Passos novel. Sep 12, 2010 - Not especially relevant to anything — we're not even in Manhattan, we're in Brooklyn — but why not? Note: I haven't yet read The Alienist by Caleb Carr, so if this is one of your favorites, them I'm sorry. Nov 27, 2007 - Manhattan Transfer (1925) by John Dos Passos Sophie's Choice (1979) by William Styron (Ed. Mar 30, 2012 - A few doors down at no.3, John Dos Passos began work on his masterpiece, the 1925 novel Manhattan Transfer, when he lived here briefly. May 19, 2014 - These three translations are rather old and I thought they were bad because they were done in a rush at a time when translators didn't have thorough working standards. Nov 17, 2011 - Con Manhattan Transfer cerco di seguire una cronaca meno conosciuta, cerco di dare il polso di questa citt� che è sempre un punto di riferimento in tutto il mondo. Sep 8, 2011 - His actions spark a story which rattles around New Orleans some time in the early 1960s (when the novel was written) taking in a former prostitute turned bar owner, a wannabe stripper, a bored businessman and his resentful wife, a black guy who meets his oppression with wisecracks, a put-upon police officer and I don't think it conjured up a 'feel of place' for New Orleans in the way that Ulysses or Manhattan Transfer, for example, do for Dublin and New York.