- Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Soldiers, Classic Literature
John Dos Passos had just returned from studying architecture in Spain when America entered World War I and - driven by the idealism that infected many young Americans (including Hemingway and e.e. cummings) - he joined up as a driver for the Ambulance Corps.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- John Dos Passos
- First published
- 1921
- Pages
- 433
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Hurst & Blackett Ltd, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781440674372
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John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his *U.S.A.* trilogy. In 1920, his first novel, *One Man's Initiation: 1917,* was published, and in 1925, his novel *Manhattan Transfer* became a commercial success. His *U.S.A.* trilogy, which consists of the novels *The 42nd Parallel* (1930), *1919* (1932), and *The Big Money* (1936), was ranked by the Modern Library in 1998 as 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Written in experimental, non-linear form, the trilogy blends elements of biography and news reports to paint a landscape of early 20th-century American culture.
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