{"product_id":"the-42nd-parallel-1919-the-big-money-9781883011147","title":"The 42nd Parallel \/ 1919 \/ The Big Money","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnique among American books for its epic scope and panoramic social sweep  U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. Now The Library of America presents an exclusive one-volume edition of this enduring masterwork by John Dos Passos  including for the first time detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events that serve as a backdrop.  In the novels that make up the trilogyThe 42nd Parallel  1919  and The Big MoneyDos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America  shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics.  A startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of twentieth-century life: Newsreels with blaring headlines; autobiographical Camera Eye sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; biographies evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan  Henry Ford  John Reed  Frank Lloyd Wright  Thorstein Veblen  and the Unknown Soldier. Holding everything together is sheer storytelling power  tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression.  The U.S.A. trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives  sailors and stenographers  interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions  desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises  corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes  in settings that include the trenches of World War I  insurgent Mexico  Hollywood studios in the silent era  Wall Street boardrooms  and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.  The volume contains newly researched chronologies of Dos Passoss life and of world events cited in U.S.A.  notes  and an essay on textual selection.  LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing  and keeping permanently in print  Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date  authoritative editions that average 1 000 pages in length  feature cloth covers  sewn bindings  and ribbon markers  and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279851806773,"sku":"ByrdShop_1883011140","price":42.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781883011147.jpg?v=1780613751","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-42nd-parallel-1919-the-big-money-9781883011147","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}