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Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

Several characters strive for happiness and excitement in early twentieth century New York City.

Themes: Fiction · Drama

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Three gulls circle over smashed cabbage and orange rinds, a ferry crashes into the slip, a nurse carries a newborn like a bedpan, and a man asks how to get to 'the center of things.' The city doesn't welcome you—it shoves you sideways.

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