Fuselli, a San Francisco clerk eager for promotion; Chrisfield, a quick-tempered Indiana farm boy; and John Andrews, a Harvard-educated musician, are drilled, shipped to France and fed into the war. The army moulds them, cools them and breaks them in turn, and Andrews’s longing to compose clashes with the system he has joined.
One of the first great disillusioned American war novels, from 1921, and the work that made Dos Passos’s name. Download the free EPUB.