Published in 1925, Manhattan Transfer was John Dos Passos's first real commercial success, though he had won critical acclaim with his antiwar novel Three Soldiers five years before. Manhattan Transfer is considered by some the highlight of his career and is probably his most widely read novel today. It follows a host of characters throughout New York City, from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, observing the developments in American consumer culture, the intersection of big business and politics, class struggles, and the proliferation of news media.
Manhattan Transfer is generally considered one of Dos Passos's most important works, as well as an exemplar of modernist literature. Like...
