Dos Passos, John,
Manhattan transfer - Boston , Houghton Mifflin ; 1990 . - 404 pages
The story unfolds against a backdrop of towering skyscrapers & filthy tenements, over meals at the Waldorf & nights in boxcars. Dos Passos reveals the lives of the wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike, & documents their struggles to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.
0395574234 9780395574232
90084976
Novel--New York (State)--New York--Rich people--Social problems--Immigrants--City and town life
Fiction.
Science fiction.
PS3507.O743 / M3 1990
Manhattan transfer - Boston , Houghton Mifflin ; 1990 . - 404 pages
The story unfolds against a backdrop of towering skyscrapers & filthy tenements, over meals at the Waldorf & nights in boxcars. Dos Passos reveals the lives of the wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike, & documents their struggles to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.
0395574234 9780395574232
90084976
Novel--New York (State)--New York--Rich people--Social problems--Immigrants--City and town life
Fiction.
Science fiction.
PS3507.O743 / M3 1990