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bucket 's review for:
The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos
I'm not sure exactly what I expected, but this was an outstandingly good read. The format is interesting and unconventional (alternating bits of five different main characters' stories with selections of newspaper headlines and song lyrics, with stream of consciousness vignettes, and with mini biographies of historical figures of the 19teens). These 3 other types of sections add a sense of time and place, and density to the stories woven among them, tying the stories together in a way that the characters' direct interaction (which does sometimes happen) never really good.
I cannot wait to dive into volume 2!
I cannot wait to dive into volume 2!