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The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos, P. Dos Passos, Dos Passos D., E. L. Doctorow, Lluís-Anton Baulenas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><p>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 were cultivating 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. <p>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 caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameo appearances.<p></p><h3></h3><p>"The single greatest novel any of us have written, yes, in this country in the last one hundred years." -- Norman Mailer</p>

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Author
John Dos Passos, P. Dos Passos, Dos Passos D., E. L. Doctorow, Lluís-Anton Baulenas
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781306224307
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
History, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rating
3.83 / 5 (4,476 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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