Manhattan Transfer

''My literary hero is John Dos Passos'' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker)

''A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s'' Christopher Hudson, Evening Standard

''Dos Passos has invented only one thing, an art of story-telling. But that is enough to create a universe'' Jean-Paul Sartre

''The best modern book about New York''
D.H. Lawrence

A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos'' Manhattan Transfer includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in Penguin Modern Classics.

A colourful, multi-faceted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with James Joyce''s Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and