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Grave, prestige, open-ended and cool.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- John Dos Passos
- First published
- 1925
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Harper, orpheus, Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A.
- Editions
- 78
- Language
- French, English, Chinese, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788432220074
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“THE nurse, holding the basket at arm's length as if it were a bedpan, opened the door to a big dry hot room with greenish distempered walls where in the air tinctured with smells of alcohol and iodoform hung writhing a faint sourish squalling from other baskets along the wall.”
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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