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- Manhattan Transfer
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- (JANUARY 11, 1926)
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- Manhattan Transfer--John Dos Passos. What Mr. Dos Passos sets
- out to do was, obviously, to draw a portrait of Manhattan. He
- had done a good job, an impressive job. The book is fragmentary
- and disconnected, told in little scenes, shuffled up almost
- indiscriminately. One may live in Manhattan for years without
- ever knowing more than two or three of the types he presents
- (although the people he presents are nearly always more than
- types--they are individuals), but the fact that a Manhattan
- dweller may not see his town as Mr. Dos Passos does, merely
- shows that the writer has done a thorough job. The spectacle is
- unsavory, but it is strong and there is no other like it.
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