Manhattan Transfer Av John Dos Passos

<p><b>''My literary hero is John Dos Passos'' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) </b><br><br><b>''A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s'' Christopher Hudson, <i>Evening Standard</i><br><br>''Dos Passos has invented only one thing, an art of story-telling. But that is enough to create a universe'' Jean-Paul Sartre<br><br>''The best modern book about New York''<br>D.H. Lawrence</b><br><br>A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos'' <i>Manhattan Transfer</i> includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>A colourful, multi-faceted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, <i>Manhattan Transfer </i>ranks with James Joyce''s <i>Ulysses</i> as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and