U.S.A.
Author: John Dos Passos
U.S.A. is by American writer John Dos Passos, being The 42nd Parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (’32) & The Big Money (’36). They were first published as a volume in ’38 with a prologue. The trilogy employs an experimental technique, incorporating four narrative modes: fictional realism telling life stories of twelve characters; collages of newsclippings & lyrics labeled N….Read More
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