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The Big Money
Author | : John Dos Passos |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2013-12-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547524927 |
“It is not simply that [Dos Passos] has a keen eye for people, but that he has a keen eye for so many different kinds of people.”—The New York Times Marking the end of “one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken” (Time), The Big Money brings us back to America after the Great War, a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929. Ultimately, whether the novels of John Dos Passos’s classic USA Trilogy are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America—and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers. The Big Money, focusing on a passionate pilot whose compromises culminate in despair and an actress led astray by her ambitions, completes this “fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline” (American Heritage).
Three Soldiers
Author | : John Dos Passos |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780760757543 |
This grimly realistic depiction of army life follows a trio of idealists as they contend with the regimentation, violence, and boredom of military service. Incited past the point of endurance, the soldiers respond with rancor and murderous rage. This powerful exploration of warfare's dehumanizing effects remains chillingly contemporary.
The Best Times
Author | : John Dos Passos |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-05-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1504011430 |
A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines. Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt—they are his beloved friends. Spain, the French Riviera, Paris, Persia, the Caucasus—they are his beloved footpaths.
John Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925 (LOA #142)
Author | : John Dos Passos |
Publisher | : Library of America John DOS Pa |
Total Pages | : 902 |
Release | : 2003-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Before he began the U.S.A. trilogy, Dos Passos prefigured his groundbreaking epic through three novels that provide a fascinating glimpse into his achievement as an avant-garde prose stylist while they incisively chronicle early 20th-century Europe and America.
Orient Express
Author | : John Dos Passos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Middle East |
ISBN | : |
The journal of the author on a trip through Russia and the Levant (the eastern Mediterranean, including Syria and Lebanon), published in 1927.
Easter Island
Author | : John Dos Passos |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307787052 |
Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois. “When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum. There I saw a statue, a huge, rough, dark-gray statue with [a] long, sad, dark-gray face. The statue stared back out of deep, sunken eyes. What was it trying to say? To this day I can remember the feeling it gave me of savage, brooding melancholy.”
John Dos Passos
Author | : Townsend Ludington |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This authorized biography of John Dos Passos is both important and highly engaging -- important because it provides a portrait-in-action of one of the ablest American writers of this century, searching critiques of all his works, and straightforward analyses of the complex political and social backgrounds out of which they grew; and engaging because of this shy, modest, friendly, endearing, and indefatigable man whose sterling character springs out of every page. - Carlos Baker, on back of jacket.