Gulls over a ferry slip, a newborn in a hospital ward, a country boy stepping off the boat: Dos Passos cuts among dozens of New Yorkers across three decades. Ellen Thatcher rises from child to actress, Jimmy Herf drifts through journalism, bootleggers and lawyers prosper, and the city itself, roaring and indifferent, holds the stage.
The experimental 1925 novel whose collage technique pointed the way to Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy. Download the free EPUB.