U.S.A.: The Big Money [VINTAGE 1946]

Dos Passos, John

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1946

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition silver gray textured cloth boards with red front cover and spine lettering and blue block border design contained in a near fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Reginald Marsh and front and rear color illustrated endpapers. The upper jacket spine edge and upper jacket tips are lightly rubbed; the jacket is otherwise in fine condition. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "U.S.A., widely known as one of the classics of the lost generation of the 1920's and 1930's, is particularly significant at this time when another generation is faced with the problems of disillusionment and unrest that follow a great war. Alfred Kazin has said of this book: "Technically, U.S.A. is one of the great achievements of the modern novel, yet the book lives by its narrative style, the wonderfully concrete yet elliptical prose which bears along and winds around the life stories in the book like a conveyor belt carrying Americans through some vast Ford plant of the human spirit. U.S.A. is a national epic, the first great national epic of its kind in the modern American novel.But the great thing about U.S.A. is that though it sweeps up so many human lives together and intones their wast and illusion and defeat so steadily, we seem to be swept along with them, and to see each life perfectly at the moment it passes by us." Called one of the saddest novels ever written by an American, it is also "as vigorous and sweeping a panorama of twentieth century America as has ever been done in fiction." It is "the actual living, breathing record of a period in its most intense manifestation." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006119

Bibliografische Details

Titel: U.S.A.: The Big Money [VINTAGE 1946]

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Erscheinungsdatum: 1946

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Marsh, Reginald

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine