A review by emmagetz
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

4.0

“The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.”

I read this for my lit history class as our last novel exploring the modern metropolis. I really liked it! The writing is was beautiful and cinematic, and the ensemble cast of characters was really compelling. It was a diverse group too, much more so than you would expect from most famous modernist novels. It was incredibly complex, so I would like to revisit it in the future.