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1919 (U.S.A.. Book 2)
by Dos Passos, John (Maxwell, Maxwell Geismar, Intro.)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VERY GOOD+
- Seller
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Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
NY: Washington Square Press (#W 701), 1961. (1st printing of new edition). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight binding, light fading and age soil to covers, clean interior with faintest age tanning of unmarked pages, light rubbing to top cover edges. Last six pages have tiny dog ear from corner bump. 512 pages. Illustrations - Reginald Marsh. Introduction - Maxwell Geismar. The US at the end of WWI "that time of boom and bust which began what is now known as the Jazz Age." Book s of Trilogy with "The 42nd Parallel" and "The Big Money". Migrated Books Template
Synopsis
With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum). The characters in this book are living through America and the first World War. In this tale, we follow a ministers' daughter from Chicago, a naive Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and we get to see side stories of Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier. John Dos Passos uses different narrative techniques to evoke the emotions of the reader in this experimental series. The twelve characters in the trilogy are introduced via fictional narratives telling their life stories, newspaper clippings, song lyrics, short biographies of figures from the public eye, and the characters' own autobiographical stream of consciousness writing.
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- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78P007
- Title
- 1919 (U.S.A.. Book 2)
- Author
- Dos Passos, John (Maxwell, Maxwell Geismar, Intro.)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD+
- Edition
- (1st printing of new edition)
- Publisher
- Washington Square Press (#W 701)
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / General;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
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