''My literary hero is John Dos Passos'' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker)
''Wonderful and extraordinary''
Robert McCrum, Observer
''No novelist in America has written more sombrely of the dangers to individual integrity in a centrally controlled society''
Alfred Kazin
The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos'' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its unique melange of fact and fiction, creates a compelling, tragic vision of America at the dawn of the twentieth century.
In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses ''camera eye'' and ''newsreel'' sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he builds up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century. Richly detailed and throbbing with vitality, U.S.A. vividly evokes that uncertain period when America, so full of
