A review by anovelemily
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

4.0

Dos Passos' prose is almost unmatched in the modernist movement. I really love the leaps and bounds he goes to make the novel experimental and interesting. The snapshots are genius, the characters are way ahead of their time. I only mark this below 5 stars because, while it's the first of its kind, it does read very choppy sometimes and can be hard to follow if you're not taking note of each character and significance. If choppiness is an issue for you as a reader, I recommend looking into his USA series, which is essentially an expansion of this sort of style but it is definitely more polished, refined and easier to follow. I do still love the ingenuity here and would recommend it to those that don't mind a few hurdles.