num_pages: 342
description: Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.
language: English
title: Manhattan Transfer
titlecomplete: Manhattan Transfer
genres: Classics, New York, Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 6177
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Mariner Books Classics