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By: Dos Passos, John [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston , Houghton Mifflin ; 1990Description: 404 pages.ISBN: 0395574234; 9780395574232.Subject(s): Novel -- New York (State)--New York -- Rich people -- Social problems -- Immigrants -- City and town lifeGenre/Form: Fiction. | Science fiction.DDC classification: Summary: 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.
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813.52 PAS 1990 (Browse shelf) Available Donated by Aaron Tugendhaft

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.

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