42nd Parallel; Author: Dos Passos, John Roderigo; Introduction: Doctorow, E. L.; Paperback

Author: Dos Passos, John Roderigo; Introduction: Doctorow, E. L.
Series#:1; U.S.A.; Paperback
Published: July 2000
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0618056815

With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway werecultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their own little corners, John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caug