Joh Dos Passos's masterpiece of modernist fiction takes us from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age in a vividly impressionistic portrait of a teeming and multifaceted New York City. From Wall Street to the waterfront, from the Bowery to the Village, from the city's grand avenues to its gritty alleys, peopled by its wealthy power brokers and its struggling immigrants, this kaleidoscopic novel conveys the restless energy of life in Manhattan. The innovative techniques Dos Passos used, marked by flashbacks, stream of consciousness, and a cinematic perspective, would go on to inspire a new school of writing. Almost a century after it was written, Manhattan Transfer remains an indelible tribute to the contradictions of the American dream.