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Much like the vivid experience of riding the citys mass transit system, manhattan transfer introduces us to a large and diverse cast of charactersfrom wealthy power brokers to struggling immigrantsand paints a portrait of this place and its people in the. By the 1930s he had altered his political views and became more conservative. Manhattan transfer by john dos passos fractious fiction. Three soldiers, the second novel by john dos passos, follows the experiences of several young americans thrown into the confusion and brutality of world war i. Because dos passos, with his perfect imagery and word usage, draws us into his books and brings so close to his characters that we feel we could reach out and touch them. Trilogy offers an expressionistic picture of new york in the 1920s the new york times. John dos passos has 91 books on goodreads with 75452 ratings.
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