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The first in John Dos Passos''s acclaimed USA trilogy—a linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age—his, and ours (The New Yorker).

John Dos Passos''s USA 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 co

The 42nd Parallel

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      Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/05/2000
      ISBN13: 9780618056811, 978-0618056811
      ISBN10: 0618056815
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first in John Dos Passos''s acclaimed USA trilogy—a linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age—his, and ours (The New Yorker).

      John Dos Passos''s USA 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 co

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