John Dos Passos: U.S.A; The 42nd Parallel; 1919; The Big Money [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Dos Passos, John

Editorial: The Library of America, New York, 1996

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Fine unread condition maroon cloth boards with gold spine lettering within a brown and gold block border design and contained within a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Chronology; Chronology of World Events Cited in U.S.A; Note on the Texts; and Notes written by Daniel Aaron and Townsend Ludington. Also includes illustrated front and rear endpapers and a bound-into-the-volume matching maroon satin ribbon page marker. "Unique among American novels for its epic scope and panoramic social sweep, John Dos Passos' U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. Now, to mark the centenary of his birth, The Library of America presents a new one-volume edition of this enduring masterwork, including for the first time detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events which serve as a backdrop. In the novels that make up the trilogy - The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) - Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics. A startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of 20th-century life: "Newsreels" with blaring headlines; autobiographical "Camera Eye" sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; "Biographes" evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, John Reed, Frank Lloyd Wright, Throstein Veblen, and the Unknown Soldier. Holding all together is sheer storytelling power, tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression. In his prologue Dos Passos writes: "U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public library full of old newspapers and dogeared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil . But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people." The trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triiumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street board rooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The volume contains newly researched chronologies of Dos Passos' life and of world events cited in U.S.A., notes, and an essay on textual selection." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. N° de ref. del artículo 007537

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Título: John Dos Passos: U.S.A; The 42nd Parallel; ...

Editorial: The Library of America, New York

Año de publicación: 1996

Encuadernación: Hardcover

Ilustrador: Scudellari, R.D. (jacket design); Larson, Gun (calligraphy)

Condición: Fine

Condición de la sobrecubierta: Fine

Edición: 1st Edition

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