The 42nd Parallel. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Mariner Books Classics, 2000
Series: Book 1 of 3 - U.S.A. Trilogy
- Softcover
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- Title
- The 42nd Parallel
- Author
- Dos Passos, John
- Publisher
- Mariner Books Classics
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0618056815
- ISBN 13
- 9780618056811
- Item weight
- 0.81 pounds
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: U.S.A. Trilogy
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 corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world.
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About the Author
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the twentieth century, writing over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs.
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