Manhattan Transfer

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Manhattan Transfer is a modernist novel by John Dos Passos that portrays the fragmented, fast-paced life of early 20th-century New York City through a collage-like narrative style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf modernist novel
novel
author John Dos Passos
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception acclaimed
depicts bourgeois society
fast-paced city life
immigrant experience
working-class life
firstEditionFormat print
followedBy U.S.A. trilogy
genre modernist literature
urban novel
hasCharacter Ellen Thatcher
George Baldwin
Gus McNeil
Jimmy Herf
Stan Emery
hasSubject capitalism
industrialization
mass media
includedIn 20th-century American literature canon
influencedBy European modernism
cinematic montage
language English
literaryMovement modernism
narrativeStyle collage-like
fragmented
narrativeTechnique montage
multiple viewpoints
stream of consciousness
notableFor experimental narrative form
panoramic portrait of New York City
originalPublicationYear 1925
partOf John Dos Passos’s early major works
precededBy Streets of Night
publisher Harcourt Brace & World
surface form: Harcourt, Brace and Company
setInLocation Manhattan
New York City
setInPeriod early 20th century
structure episodic
nonlinear
theme American Dream
alienation
modernity
social stratification
urbanization

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subject surface form: John Dos Passos