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The Big Money

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Descripción paperback. Condición: Very Good in Wrappers. 1st edition. New York. 1969. March 1969. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451504461. Introduction By Alfred Kazin.Original Illustrations By Reginald Marsh. 557 pages. paperback. CQ446. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback America Literature 20th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - America in the boom years of the twenties is the setting of THE BIG MONEY. Hog - wild material prosperity rules the land and cripples the national life. Amid a vivid, fevered atmosphere of big business and bootleg booze, tinsel glamour and grinding injustice, Dos Passos guides his characters - a young mid - Westerner destroyed by his own success, an amoral trollop - turned - Hollywood star, an advertising boy - wonder on a careening treadmill of corruption, an idealistic girl discovering the facts of life - toward destinies that make a mockery of the American dream. The author's wonderful multiplicity of narrative techniques, his swift cross - cutting of points of view, never were used with greater effect than in this novel that Malcolm Cowley termed 'a furious and sombre poem, written in a mood of revulsion even more powerful than that which T. S. Eliot expressed in 'The Waste Land.' It stands as the climactic novel of a trilogy Alfred Kazin calls 'an epic of democracy' charged with 'the energy of disenchantment.' THE 42ND PARALLEL and NINETEEN NINETEEN, the first and second novels of U.S.A., are also available in Signet Classic editions. Each can be read as a separate novel. Together they form a landmark achievement in American fiction. inventory #32835. Nº de ref. del artículo: z32835

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