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Manhattan Transfer is a novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925; it is considered to be one of his most important works. The book attacks vulgar consumerism and social indifference of Jazz Age urban life. The work portrays a Manhattan merciless to its inhabitants yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The book shows some of Dos Passos's experimental writing techniques and narrative collages that would be become more pronounced in his U.S.A. trilogy and other later works. The technique in Manhattan Transfer was inspired in part by James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and experiments with film collage by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein.
| John Dos Passos Novels |
| The Scene of Battle | One Man's Initiation: 1917 | Three Soldiers | A Pushcart at the Curb | Rosinante to the Road Again | Streets of Night | Manhattan Transfer | Facing the Chair | Orient Express | The Ground we Stand On | Chosen Country | Most Likely to Succeed | The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson | The Men Who Made the Nation | The Great Days | Prospects of a Golden Age | Midcentury | Mr. Wilson's War | Brazil on the Move | The Best Times: An Informal Memoir | The Shackles of Power | The Portugal Story | Century's Ebb: The Thirteenth Chronicle | Easter Island: Island of Enigmas |
| U.S.A. Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel | Nineteen Nineteen | The Big Money |
| District of Columbia: Adventures of a Young Man | Number One | The Grand Design |
